Quotes About Manners

There was something unusual about him, or something behind him. It might be that he was bookish - never came to see you without taking up the book on the table (he was now reading, with his bootlaces trailing on the floor); or that he was a gentleman, which showed itself in the way he knocked the ashes out of his pipe, and in his manners of course to women.

Directly anything happens—it may be a marriage, or a birth, or a death—on the whole they prefer it to be a death—every one wants to see you. They insist upon seeing you. They've got nothing to say; they don't care a rap for you; but you've got to go to lunch or to tea or to dinner, and if you don't you're damned. It's the smell of blood, she continued; I don't blame 'em; only they shan't have mind if I know it!

Each of the ladies, being after the fashion of their sex, highly trained in promoting men's talk without listening to it, could think—about the education of children, about the use of fog sirens in an opera—without betraying herself. Only it struck Helen that Rachel was perhaps too still for a hostess, and that she might have done something with her hands.

He was amused and gratified to find that he had the power to annoy his oblivious, supercilious hostess, if he could not impress her; though he would have preferred to impress her. He

Yes, I think that of all his books this is my favourite one. I don't know whether it makes one "think," and I don't much care if it does not. I like it for its own sake. I like its manners.

You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class

I crossed my arms. "You're saying I'm not usually polite?" He staged a sigh. "It's amazing how quickly I can regret saying something with you…" "I'm polite. I'm very fucking polite.

The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

Never hire anyone who starts a sentence with the word "Dude!" and never work for a guy who doesn't know the difference between mute and moot

You know who wears sunglasses inside? Blind people and assholes.

I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.

The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous.

Courteous people learn courtesy from the discourteous

Ya se lo he dicho, por supuesto; pero quería agradecértelo de algún modo y, por otro lado, me parece que, si no tiene algo que limpiar, no sabe qué hacer con su tiempo. La han educado así.

She was a polite person, and politeness meant making others feel better even if it made you feel like shit.

I'm a lady and these are my lady bites." "Mouth closed, please. No one needs to witness your mastication process," said Tess's father

Gran was just being polite. Southern people are supposed to be polite and gracious. She's trying to show me how to be the same way.

I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

being. I find it's important to keep on your toes with English people because they're fucking devious while they blandly polite you to death.

No vaginas at the dinner table!" Dad said.

She informed me that in the future, I was not to throw out Starbucks customers for being heartless bitches.' - The Patron Saint of Pigs (Let it Snow, 3) by Lauren Myracle

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.