Quotes About Manners

Control the senses, practice equanimity. Live by disciplinary rules. Associate with good friends who are not lazy and live purely. Be courteous and well-mannered, and thus, full of joy. Put an end to suffering.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

Political correctness is the means by which we try to control others; decency is the means by which we try to control ourselves.

Without the qualities of solidity, freedom, peace, and joy, fine manners are not really fine manners. They are just a camouflage called false Zen (a false sign of meditation practice).

I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.

Knowing when and where to sit is something every young executive should learn. A junior person who comes barging into a room and takes any seat he wants catches the disapproving eye of senior management.

Don't ask me why, but it always feels intrusive to look at other people's junk.

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

I've always been the same since I was a kid, maybe it was the way I was brought up, but I've never liked arrogant people.

I don't accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.

Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous.

It's one thing to ask for a picture, but to just take a picture of me is kinda weird, guys.

Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.

We don't kiss in public. It's not done.

I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.

Pemphredo had been about to crawl off, but at that she came back and settled down, brushing off her filthy shorts. Deino crossed her legs. Enyo stopped picking at her fingernails with a knife and put it politely away. I kind of felt like I should be serving tea.

That didn't reassure me much; Alphonse's idea of good manners consisted of remembering to bury all the bodies.

All phone calls are obscene.

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

We call them taxis where I come from. And bookstores." God, he was stuffy. "We call them manners where I come from, Ms. Lane. Have you any?

This is not LA, people. We shine instead of sparkle, we smile and bless their hearts instead of giving the finger. Like my mama taught me about wearing jewelry: Put on everything you want to wear, and then take one thing off.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Your taste in furnishings is quite splendid, Captain Sharpe. One might almost say refined." She couldn't keep a trace of sarcasm out of her voice. "Unlike my manners, is that it, Miss Chastain?" "Your words, Captain, not mine.

Call opened the door before she had time to knock. "You're only five minutes late," he said lightly. "For a woman, I consider that right on time." "Actually, for a woman, it's fifteen minutes early." He chuckled. "Come on in.