Quotes About Manners

To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing.

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed.

The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest.

The vulgar Turk is very different from what is spoken at court, 'tis as ridiculous to make use of the expressions commonly used in speaking to a great man or lady, as it would be to talk broad Yorkshire or Somershetshire in the drawing room.

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Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead.

People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.

I don't know your customs, but here, if you don't want to frighten someone, you don't go looming over their sleeping body with knives .

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned harder to make sure Charlotte let you stay.

He bumped into a pay phone and said, 'Excuse me, miss,' on our way in," said Julian. "It's polite to apologize," said Mark with the same small voice. "Not to inanimate objects.

And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.

Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon.

Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.

Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest.

Might I make free with your lettuce, my lady?

The Queen sniffed. "I rather miss your Jace," she said. "Of all of you, he was the prettiest and the best-mannered.

And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we have eaten.

Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. "Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.

Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!" "So would I," said Gideon from across the room.