Quotes About Manners

Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.

Men need to be with women otherwise I don't think they really know how to behave. They'll just stare at me and it's awkward, so I scramble around in my mind to say the rudest things I can think of just to get something out of them.

I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.

Can I get a mochaccino?': a statement that, for many, is worse than any number of nails down a blackboard. Not on account of the coffee - most of us drink Ventis aplenty these days - rather it's the 'can I get?' - three words that regularly top the list of British bugbears.

I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior.

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.

Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.

Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

Group eating was scarcely less embarrassing than bodily functions

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

The docotr babu had to be an educated man also. Then why had he allowed Feroz seth to talk to him in that manner? Was education alone not enough? And if not what was the missing part? Was it because Feroz seth knew how to look angry even when he wasn't? Would her Amit be able to do that? Was that something they taught you in school

Only a man will think of a burp as a greeting for another man.

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

Stick that bumbershoot in elephant's foot brolly stand behind the big door. Mind your manners at High tea.

Serge slammed the phone down. "All the women in my life! You try to be polite, but they still talk to you.

country today. No manners." Serge unscrewed a thermos of coffee. "People used to hang out and actually communicate. But today they head to the mall and sit together at the Yogurt A Go-Go in their own separate spheres of mobile devices." "What's wrong with that?" "It's destroying the art of conversation!" said Serge. "I love conversations!

Seth twisted up his mouth and somewhat sarcastically waved his hand toward the couch and said, "Won't you please sit down, Madam Queen?" "Thank you," Tate said primly.

I try to phrase criticism in the nicest possible way, but I also never lie. If people ask, I assume it's because they want to know. People are not dumb about these things; they can tell when a compliment isn't sincere.