Quotes About Manners

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

But it was this very politeness that finally first began to grate upon my nerves, and hen to cause despair to rise up within my throat and threaten to choke me. For, no matter how smooth and correct the words issuing from the courtiers' mouths were, they couldn't quite hide the scorn or laughter in their eyes. And so, on the night of my sixteenth birthday, I saw myself as they saw me for the very first time.

Prophets are always disagreeable and usually have bad manners, but it is said that they occasionally hit the nail on the head . . . like every true prophet, the artist is the unwitting mouthpiece of the psychic secrets of his time and is often as unconscious as a sleep-walker.

In fact, if perceived as a rude woman, you are far less attractive a target than a polite one.

The Goops they lick their fingers,And the Goops they lick their knives;They spill their broth on the tablecloth—Oh, they lead disgusting lives!The Goops they talk while eating,And loud and fast they chew;And that is why I'm glad that IAm not a Goop—are you?

He's a closet gentleman

He was swearing in what Irene assumed were words well-brought-up dragons used when they didn't want to shock lesser creatures.

Treat a man like a dog, he'll act like a dog. Treat a man with respect, he'll remember that too.

But people with good manners never, ever do it in public, or when company is over. Especially when that company is an evil little worm.

Curteis he was, lowely, and servysable,And carf biforn his fader at the table.

She is mirour of alle curteisye.

That he is gentil that dooth gentil dedis.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

I do," he remembers the matronly lady saying. "You haven't missed much. She's such a greedy cunt." Wilson says he had a hard time keeping himself from spitting the soup out on the table. When he recovered, he said in his most courtly manner, "Baroness, I think you and I are going to have a lovely evening.

What Avrakotos says he found particularly distasteful about the British spies were "the fucking teas. Can you believe it, they interrupted meetings every day at three-thirty or four for tea and cookies.

Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy.

Knocking, it's a thing," I told him. "You make a fist, lift it, and gently hit the door to let the person inside know you are out there.

Being a blueblood isn't just knowing the rules. It's knowing the precisely correct thing to do in every situation, then doing it with unshakable entitlement.

Perhaps if you were less heavy-handed in your treatment of the guests you claim to honor and protect, your inn would have a higher rating." He did not. Oh yes, yes he did. "Perhaps if you trained the knights under your command to follow simple orders, your House would've reached greater prominence within your empire.

I am a polite, nonthreatening kind of dragon with excellent manners. Horns are hidden, tail is tucked away, fangs covered. I would never do anything cruel, like stab a man with a knife about ten times to get him to answer a question. Somehow

She crossed her arms. He held out his hand, inviting her to join him. Fat chance. "Please grace me with your presence," he said as if she were a lady at some ball and he was inviting her on a balcony for a private chat. He was mocking her. She bristled.