Quotes About Manners

I am afraid you do not like your pen. Let me mend it for you. I mend pens remarkably well. Thank you -- but I can always mend my own. -- A dialogue between Caroline Bingley and Fitzwilliam Darcy.

do not believe Mrs. Long will do any such thing. She has two nieces of her own. She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.

how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are.

The nonsense and folly of people's stepping out of their rank and trying to appear above themselves, makes me think it right to give you a hint

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals." (10)

Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.

till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.

Dorothea sniffed and looked around the room, her distaste clear. "Try to be polite, Mother," Marjorie said. "I am always polite." "Then try to be nice.

I know that sounds odd, but I have always felt that the English love children as long as they are polite, quiet, and well behaved. Americans seem to love children however they behave.

possibly because of their habit of bringing their reading matter to the dinner table and ignoring any non-bookworms present.

No fair! Yours is prettier than mine," Grace said to Nancy, and pushed in front of her. "Can I go first, Mr. D? Can I?" "Whoa, no pushing. Everybody will get a turn." Shooting marbles was harder than it looked. Nancy didn't get any points.

I am not at all expirenced in the ways of the world, as you are. But it seems to me that people are of good breeding if they behave in a genteel manner; are thoughtful and considerate, and not because of who they are, or because they are always proud of how much money or consequence they possess. - Georgiana Darcy

Perhaps the best guide is treat people, everyone you meet with, with the politeness and consideration with which you would wish them to treat you? - Georgiana Darcy

It's not a nice thing to send a penis to a woman. It's disrespectful.

Riley reminded herself that she was a professional, and stabbing Emerson with her nail file wouldn't be appropriate.

Dude," Diesel said. "That's no way to get dessert." Carl snapped to attention. "Eep?" "Cookies," I told him. Carl jumped onto his booster seat, sat ramrod straight, and folded his hands on the table. He was a good monkey. I gave him a cookie, and he shoved it into his mouth. "Manners," Diesel said to him. Carl spit the cookie out onto the table, picked it up, and carefully nibbled at it.

I'm usually only mentally rude to people.

Morelli got Briggs a glass. "Don't let the curtains on the windows and the toaster in the kitchen fool you. I'm even less civilized than she is.

Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary.

I think there's something to be said for going to certain fine dining restaurants and knowing that after a certain time, it would be inappropriate to take young children. And, unrealistic for them and unfair to the child and to the others that are dining.

I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual.