Quotes About Manners

You hear things about certain people. When you hear someone was mean to a limo driver or a wardrobe lady, or someone was rotten to a fan, somewhere in your brain it gets stuck.

If you don't wash dishes properly, you will get ill. And you will lose friends because they'll come to your house, you'll give them tea in a filthy cup, and they'll never see you again.

Her fierce blue eyes met mine only for a second, but in that fragile eternity I glimpsed the mind behind the manners; in that endless instant, I knew.

I dared not let my eyes widen in horror or the guards would be on to me; to buy myself some time, I curtsied deeply, to a slow count of three. The prince, when I finally dared to look at him again, seemed amused. He gestured broadly. "You are finished here, one hopes?" "Yes, thank you," I said, managing to keep any tremor out of my voice. "If you wish to

The grandfather clock struck the half hour. She must be away. Glancing from Mama to Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Astor, she did the only polite thing she could do. She rolled her eyes back in her head, exhaled a loud gasp and swooned out of her chair.

Henry Ford inviting job candidates to dinner and watching them eat. He never hired the man who salted his food before tasting it.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth

Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Being a Gentleman, has more to do with hiding his flaws, than exhibiting the virtues!

Let other people finish their sentences when they're talking.

Don't finish someone's sentences. And talking louder or faster doesn't make your idea any better.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.

I think calling me 'full-figured' is just rude.

I just have to work on the apologetic side because I'm Canadian. We apologize for everything.

You need to be careful with a Bluetooth headset. Because some guys look crazy with them.