Quotes About Manners

Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.

I felt that it was getting very late indeed, but I did not say anything, for I felt under obligation to meet my host's wishes in ever way.

Pray do not take us as exceeding the bounds of business courtesy in pressing you in all ways to use the utmost expedition.

but he almost managed to sit down on his silk hat, which men don't generally do when they are cool

with true Yorkshire hospitality: give a guest everything, and leave him free to do as he likes.

Nikdy nezapomínejte, že takový smích, který zaklepe u vaÅ¡ich dveÃ…â"¢í a zeptá se: Smím vstoupit?, není pravý smích. Nikoli! Smích je král a dostaví se, kdy a jak se mu zlíbí. Nikoho se neptá, neohlíží se na vhodnost okamžiku. ProstÄ› Ã…â"¢ekne: Jsem tu.

Do us all a favor and toss your mouth overboard.

Forgive my brother, Camira apologized. We don't normally let him out of his cage when guests are present.

When receiving an unexpected gift, a wise man does not ask too many questions. Only the foolish person assumes that a gift is simply a gift, and that there are no implied obligations. —DIRECTEUR JOSEF VENPORT, Venport Holdings consolidation memo

Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

Taking my paw to your young Mattimeo's ear, if he keeps upsetting my candied chestnut display. If you'll excuse me," Sister May said, and hurried off.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

You are very clever, said the old man shyly. I would like to eat your brains, one day. For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, You're so sweet I could gobble you all up! but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for It's very kind of you to say so.

Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors.

Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!

Behind her, Preston grunted and said, I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig! Tiffany, trying to get her shattered thoughts together, muttered, My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow... Is that so? said Preston cheerfully. Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!

I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig! My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow… Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!

In the same way that the really rich can never be mad (they're eccentric), so they can also never be rude (they're outspoken and forthright).

Los historiadores han observado que es en las épocas de abundancia cuando se siente el deseo de ir a la guerra. En tiempos de hambruna, la gente está demasiado ocupada intentando encontrar algo que comer. Cuando sólo tienen lo justo para ir tirando, las personas tienden a ser afables y educadas. Pero cuando se les sirve un banquete, enseguida deciden que ha llegado el momento de discutir quién se sienta dónde.

Most people will shy away from killing people they haven't been introduced to.

What does a man stand up to do, a woman sit down to do, and a dog lift its leg to do?" And then, when everyone was too embarrassed to answer, she'd triumphantly shriek "Shake hands!

Without manners, violence enters the room. Without the decency of imagination, narcissism leads.