Quotes About Manners

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

Beware of a man with manners.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.