Quotes About Manners

I don't believe in texting while dining, sending one-word e-mails in lieu of formal thank-you cards, wearing shorts to the theater, or settling for any of the modern trends that favor comfort over politeness, ease over style. Manners are simply about asking yourself, What's the right thing to do?

I can be nice - I don't need to be rude for no reason.

What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me.

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

Warmly thank your host when you leave, citing special things you enjoyed about your stay. As soon as you return home, use your good stationery and write a lovely note thanking your hosts profusely.

When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.

It's very important with these young people who are graduating and getting married to write thank-you notes.

Good manners don't cost nothing.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

I was always taught how to dress for the occasion.

The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.

manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

The punishment for bad manners is as certain as the punishment for crime. By common consent, society banishes the bad-mannered.

Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That's not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression