Quotes About Manners

She pressed me to take some cream crackers also but I declined because I thought I would make too much noise eating them.

She never blows her nose. A form of speech: the lesser for the greater.

degree of civility I normally possess," he said. "What'd she say?

Excuse me, sir, you got dog poop on your shoe.

I texted back, thanking

What's that old saying? A well-armed society is a polite society.

I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!!

I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

Many policemen have not completed their education, and the university can help them on this front. Education will enable them to speak well and politely to the people.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

If you're having dinner with friends and they're always on the phone or always texting, it's just impolite. Unless it's something important - like someone is in the hospital or something - don't do it.

You don't talk to Richard Petty unless he talks to you.

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

Why do women go out with jerks? Because jerks ask.

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid

When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.