Quotes About Manners

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

Self-praise is no recommendation.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

Superior people never make long visits.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

The cocktail party - a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite to dinner.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.

The great majority of successful business men and women have been and are possessors of strong personalities of the right sort, and by analyzing their climb to success it is amazing to discover how large a part good manners, good breeding, and correct behavior have had in helping them to win the goal.

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.

Courtesy is a little thing that makes a big difference.

A little thing that don't cost nothing, and it's just the little things that makes a man to be looked up to and liked.

When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes.

How's it going down there? It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

You shouldn't have private conversations in public facilities at the top of your lungs." Point well taken, Eve was forced to admit.

People who act like assholes get treated like assholes