Quotes About Manners

Donde no hay mujeres no hay buenos modales", o "En la audacia hay genio, fuerza y magia". Aunque no

After we ate our heaping slice of humble pie, we asked the missus if she could at least serve it up a la mode next time.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

When the hunters, many of them retaining the foul odors and wretched stains of their gory work, were in town, they wanted whiskey and women. Good manners would only result in them having to wait longer for both.

I take offence if I'm called arrogant, because I've been brought up in a family that does not endorse arrogance.

When a man crosses his legs and the trouser leg rides up to show the hairy shins, it offends my eyes.

Growing up in the South, we say 'Yes Ma'am' and 'No Ma'am.' Here in Hollywood, people get offended.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

You might see Al Pacino at the grocers, but you would never go up to him and say, 'Oh my God, you're Al Pacino.'

If I'm on a bus and an old lady gets on, I get up.

I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.

When going out on a date, I think there are certain old-fashioned manners that I still enjoy. I don't mean that as an anti-feminist comment. I just mean it as a pro-women comment. There must be a place for us to exist and our differences to exist without one taking away from the other.

I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying to impress me.

The cliche of call-centre work is that it's mainly older people who will stay on the line to talk to you. Whether through loneliness or good manners, they tend to allow you to finish your sentences, hear you out.

I have been known for my courtesy on and off the bench.

Girls really like for doors to be opened for them. Guys should really remember that.

I actually hate when people open my gifts, and I hate opening gifts in front of people.

Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.