Quotes About Manners

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

I don't hold doors for women. I'm not sure I really differentiate between men and women, in my door-related activities. Do women really care about this issue?

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner.

If there's one thing that makes a man sick, it's to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.

I like my man to be witty; he needs a sense of humour and needs to be extremely well-mannered.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Really, Channing," remonstrated Alexia, "did you have to eat the man's dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.

That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.

At dinner my man appeares.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.