Quotes About Manners

You can never hope to become a skilled conversationalist until you learn how to put your foot tactfully through the television set.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed.

A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.

Once a gentleman, always a gentleman.

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason, mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.

When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.

I always try to be nice. I never want to be that person that anyone perceives as being rude or disrespectful, 'cause that's not me at all.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

Lack of etiquette and manners is a huge turn off. Men who don't behave decently are irritating. Also, I don't like guys who show off. When will guys realize that girls hate showoffs!

We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.

If I'm tweeting about being somewhere, and I haven't replied to somebody's email from three days ago, that's quite rude.

Even my trolls have started taking the trouble to spell their Tweets correctly, which is thoughtful.

Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you."