Quotes About Manners

And how shall you pay, gentlemen?" enquired Elric politely, still smiling.

In a golf club everyone knows the player who does not replace his divot. One can guess how he leads the rest of his life.

the very open-endedness of human appetite is responsible for both our savagery and civility, since the creature that conceive of eating anything (including, notably, other humans) stands in particular need of ethical rules, manners, and rituals. we are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.

Nuestra cultura codifica las reglas para comer sabiamente en una complicada estructura de tabúes, rituales, recetas, modales y tradiciones culinarias que nos evitan tener que enfrentarnos de nuevo al dilema del omnívoro en cada comida.

Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect. It says that you think someone else is going to clean up after you: that you're not prepared to do it yourself.

My family's big on discipline, respect, manners, make sure that we respect our elders. So that's kind of what the military is. You have to say, 'Yes sir,' 'No ma'am,' 'Yes ma'am.' All that stuff. That's kind of the mold my dad has for my brothers and I.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

She thanked him just as

She thought about Susan, who always acted big. In kindergarten there was no worse crime than acting big.

Don't eat so noisily. My grandmother used to say, 'A smack at the table is worth a smack on the bottom.

I did not mind cleaning up my room, dusting, making the salad, but I resented her manner of asking me.

You shouldn't leave your crayon on other people's beds where it can get sat on.

Grown-ups often forgot that no child likes to be ordered to be nice to another child.

And there you have the difference between the Midwest and the West, ladies and gentlemen. People in the Midwest are nice.

and I still have to quell an impulse to go up to strangers in pubs and restaurants and say, "Excuse me, can I give you a tip that'll help stop those peas bouncing all over the table?" Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun

when a person says to you, "How do you do?" he will be taken aback if you reply, with impeccable logic, "How do I do what?" The complexities of the English language are

Nobody ever says, Can I have your beets?

New Rule: Stop hitting on women at the dog park. Yes, we're talking to you, divorced guy with a ponytail. That better be a Milk-Bone in your pocket, because we're not glad to see you. Women come to the park to exercise their dogs, not to socialize with hounds. They wouldn't pick you up if they had a plastic bag on their hand. Although if you're determined to meet a woman at the dog park, here's a tip: Get a dog.