Quotes About Manners

Sometimes I jump on the table and kick people in the face, but I'm always civil about it.

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.

Being a 'Lady' used to be something to which all young women aspired.

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.

Song Joong-ki is known for his sincerity and manners. He is younger than me, but I thought I learned many things from him.

Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.

I am very sweet generally, but if someone tries to be over-smart by speaking to me in fancy English, then I go: 'who are you?' It isn't right.

I get more disgusted with men all the time - particularly traveling Americans. They start out on a trip to Europe and never bother to pack a dinner jacket. This is not only stupid - it's bad manners.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.

I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.

It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.

I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here - I'll get it, I'll make it.

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.

He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.

I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.