Quotes About Manners

I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.

When a Lady chooses to Change Her Mind,' said the Mouse with a touch of hauteur, 'a Gentleman would consider it no more than her Privilege, and not Badger Her About It.

How much worse can it get than finishing dinner, having him reach over, pull a hair out of my head, and start flossing with it at the table?

Why do I find it irresistible when you tell me to go to hell so politely?

Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.

You can have a coke since you never did learn to be civilized and drink coffee.

It's not a matter of jealousy. It's a matter of courtesy.

Just because she was a woman, did she have to act coy and pretend to be flattered when a man tried to slobber all over her/

Fine. Now get lost. Well, that was certainly rude. Regan blew her hair out of her eyes as Rafe carted her down the hall and into the kitchen. You're an only child, right? Yes, but --- Figured.

lashes at him. "I never would have guessed." His lips twitched before he lifted the bottle to them. "Nothing personal." "Of course not. I don't like rude, arrogant men. That's nothing personal

My family's just as important as yours, and I've got as much money and prestige." "Money and prestige don't buy good manners. You aren't showing any at the moment.

Is there anything more attractive than a polite person with limitless self-belief? There is not.

Now the passing etiquette. Do I give you the ass or the crotch?

Here's a single girl's secret. The reason you eat dinner with a man on a first date is so you know how he's going to fuck you. A slob who gobbles down the meal, never looks at a bite, you know not to crawl into bed with that guy.

heads together. I tell the waiter, give us clean food, please. Please, don't be doing any trash to the stuff we order. In that case, sir

What calm lives they had, those people! No worries about the French Revolution, or the crashing struggle of the Napoleonic wars. Only manners controlling natural passion so far as they could, together with cultured explanations of any mischances .34

1894, George Saintsbury was confident that "a fondness for Miss Austen" could be considered "itself a patent of exemption from any possible charge of vulgarity.

And even Andy would agree. Trendy glasses and a few short years of college are a poor replacement for a lifetime of experience and decent manners. Good day." Before

A young women asked Lee what he would do. Lee replied, I shall welcome him into my home, show him all the courtesy which is due from one gentlemen to another, and try to do everything in my power to make his stay agreeable.

Nothing would take him, he was a barbarian with the manners of a gentleman. Neither

Actually, Herbert-Miller. But call me Grace. Come in, please.

closing it for her after she was seated.

Did your mom ever tell you, 'If you can't say something nice, don't say anything'? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you're talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)

And her old Uncle William used to say a lady is known by her shoes and her gloves.