Quotes About Manners

Juliet and Hartley had long ago abandoned manners with each other. It was refreshing to behave without respect towards someone.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Never rub another man's rhubarb.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit.

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.