Quotes About Manners

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down."

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

No man does right by a woman at a party.

Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness.

Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple. —DAVID KEUCK