Quotes About Manners

Do not confuse manners for kindness. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts.

People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.

There's a big etiquette thing with wrestling, but every day you come in, you shake everybody's hand, you introduce yourself, you say hello.

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.

I never invite idiots to my house.

If he invited you out, he's got to pay.

The custom of going to a party only when we have been invited is a necessary, attractive, decent way for a party to evolve.

I am not this kind of person who gatecrashes events. I only go to places where I am invited.

It is not respectful to dance with people you don't know when invited to someone else's home.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

I grew up with a saying: 'It doesn't matter what you wear or where you go, but your hair always has to be brushed.' So in Italy, we come from that kind of culture - where how you present yourself is important.

I was disrespectful everywhere: U.S., Italy, France.

Badou Jack ain't a trash-talker. He's very respectful.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Don't make jokes about food.

When they crossed the street, he didn't even take her arm. Of course, a faun wouldn't.

One of the tenets of civility is the willingness to be publicly courteous with those with whom we disagree or dislike when inescapably we find ourselves in their company.

Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.

What makes a bourgeoisie is not its attitude, taste, or manners. It is not even its aspirations. The bourgeoisie is above all the direct product of precise economic realities.

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Then his proud bearing, his manners, his elegance, his good looks — and who could be altogether insensitive to them? — powerfully suggested to me that here at last I had found someone who came up to my ideal of a friend.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

Well," Waxillium said. "Perhaps I should begin by asking after your health." "Perhaps you should," Steris replied. "Er. Yes. How's your health?" "Suitable." "So is Waxillium," Wayne added. They all turned to him. "You know," he said. "He's wearing a suit, and all. Suitable. Ahem. Is that mahogany?