Quotes About Manners

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

I never turn down a drink. Among friends it's always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You'll find that in the Talmud too.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly?

The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Women wanted to be viewed as equals to men. So men were like, 'You wanna be viewed as equal to me, then open your own damn door.' But I still don't view it as an excuse to be an a**hole.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.