Quotes About Manners

A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?

The more you act like a lady, the more he will act like a gentleman.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect. If we strive to become, then, what we strive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Routines that teach children good manners, cleanup responsibilities, consideration for others, and respect for teachers provide good preparation for school and life. Disorganized, out of control class environments may cause feelings of insecurity for preschool children. Gifted children may be especially sensitive to the disorder.

He had no wish to obtrude himself on bishops.

Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.

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Manners is treating people with respect.

I tell you what I won't put up with. You chose how to behave.

Have you finished your tea? I want to show you the painting." "Monsieur," Cécile said. "Unless I am drinking champagne, I am always finished.

Happily, as you are not my husband, I do not have to give your opinion more attention than I choose," I snapped. "Good day, Mr. Hargreaves.

The only people who come close to annoying me as much as left-laners are cart-hogs, shoppers who leave their carts in the middle of the aisle and wander a few feet away, where they stand with their mouths open staring stupefied at the shelves as if they've never seen food before. I

Bernadette never learned that a restrained voice meant dignity and control of strong feeling or good manners, especially in women. She thought such a voice was servile, fit only for servants, and that the possessor was timid, humble, inferior, and worthy only of abuse and peremptory correction.

Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.

One should have humanity and should know what to speak and how to behave, and our lifestyle should be good.