Quotes About Manners

I'm to attend balls and banquets without my squire? demanded Raoul, all innocence. I can't handle things like requesting water to shave with, or getting my clothes pressed. I need Kel.

Your leave to sit." "The countryside is as much yours as mine, sir." "Damn you then, I'll sit." "It's hardly needful you should send me to Hell for that. But then, you have another way in mind.

It's rude to run off a guest. It's rude to wear out your welcome.

You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.

It's OK to be an eccentric; it's not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric.

During meals, I was taught table manners, and I was not allowed to twirl my fork around over my head. The only time I could revert back to autism was for one hour after lunch. The rest of the day, I had to live in a nonrocking, nontwirling world.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

Do young ladies still need permission to waltz?" Daphne found herself smiling at his discomfort. "How long have you been away?" "Five years. Do they?" "Yes." "Do you have it?" He looked almost pained at the prospect of his escape plan falling apart. "Of course.

Well!" Mrs. Featherington huffed. "I never!" "No," Anthony replied. "You always.

What are you doing here?" Aberforth arched one overgrown eyebrow. "And to think Virginia is said to be the cradle of manners in this country." "I'm a New Yorker now. I'm practicing being rude.

I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort

Since you dismissed your maid," he said, "I suppose it will be up to me to undress you." "That is most chivalrous of you, my lord.

If you are going to do that, would you mind not jostling the bed so much?' came a sarcastic voice near the head board. 'Perhaps you could roll around on the floor.

Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?

Armand was just dumbfounded by the almost universal habit in U.S. academic circles of signing exchanges with "Best." "Who is best?" he asked us. "Why are they best?")

Fitger behaves like more of an ass than he actually is.

The idea that medieval people rarely washed is a nineteenth-century fallacy. Every courtesy book stressed the need to wash one's hands and face daily and it was also customary to wash the hands before eating: guests might be offered water scented with garden herbs or flowers or even, in the wealthiest households, with perfume imported from the east.

In the context of tragedy, all polite behavior is self-denial.

Were you born in a barn? I must have been, mom asked me so often... You would've thought she would know if anyone did!

The guards had asked the Doctor to please wait in the hallway until Mr McCavity had time to see him. So it seemed only polite, the Doctor thought, to wait until they had gone before he wandered off to explore the house.

After you then, buddy. Youth before beauty

There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency.

Be specially polite to people who annoy you. True feelings are for true friends.