Quotes About Manners

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

And now I wish I hadn't been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!" "No, no!" said Alverstoke soothingly. "Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

His Grace was at her side, and lifted her down from the chair. "My enfant," he said , "duchesses do not dance on chairs, nor do they call their brothers 'imbécile'." Léonie's twinkled irrepressibly. "I do," she said firmly.

Well, I want you all to be polite,' said Mother firmly, adding, 'and you're not to mention owls, Larry. She might think we're peculiar.' 'We are,' concluded Larry with feeling.

The aristocrats on both sides of the Atlantic, whether from new or old wealth, have the manners and the morals of small-town gossips. And

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners, morals, and medicine.

I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as "Massholes.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

Men make laws; women make manners.

They asked Lucman, the fabulist, From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company.

A gentleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.