Quotes About Manners

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Ladies & Gentelman, the man who tought William Kennedy Smith everything he knows about dating, Sweet Stan Lane!

A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

The superior man is never in anyone's way.

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

No one would be fooled, but propriety would be maintained.

Footsteps and jolly hallooing come his way: sounds more terrible to his ears than the hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen, for they signify that he shall have to be civil to chaps he barely knows.

the guy from the Midwest goes up to a New Yorker on the street and says, "Excuse me, sir, can you tell me how to get to the Empire State Building, or should I just go fuck myself?

Her ideas about reporters had been moulded by the cinema; it was a surprise to her to find that in real life they could be kind and helpful people with good manners.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.