Quotes About Manners

Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

If you ask with respect and interest, you cannot go wrong.

All this takes time, but 'Good manners,' said Emerson, 'are made up of petty sacrifices.

Quien pisa con suavidad va lejos".

Su mala educación sólo es superada por su mala educación".

Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.

Si no oía claramente el nombre, decía: "Lo siento. No oí bien". Después, si el nombre era poco común, preguntaba cómo se escribía.

C. S. Lewis's discussion of storge, familial love, is endlessly instructive on this point and is required reading for all who intend to have a decent family life.1 He notes that he has "been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parent.

Most families would be healthier and happier if their members treated one another with the respect they would give to a perfect stranger. C. S. Lewis's discussion of storge, familial love, is endlessly instructive on this point and is required reading for all who intend to have a decent family life.1 He notes that he has "been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parent.

One does not go to Vatican City with one's ass hanging out.

We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled

He would get up in the midst of the crowded shop, interrupting the conversation, and start outside to relieve himself. "All who can't swim, mount the highest bench," he would cry out, "for the great he-elephant will now make water!

Typical conduct guides described how to stand (with feet turned out and one hand inside the waistcoat), to bow (with hat in hand, one knee bent and eyes downcast) and to walk (with head high and arms free) along with helpful pictures of the ideal poses, as well as detailed instructions on table manners and how to dance the minue

The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what I may venture to describe as the unsought self-possession, which is a sure sign of good breeding, not in England only, but everywhere else in the civilized world.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do. They can't sit over their wine, they can't play at whist, and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

He started up, and wrung my hand in quite an ecstasy of gratitude. How I do hate people who can only express their feelings by hurting other people's hand.

You live a great deal too much in the society of women. And you have contracted two very bad habits in consequence. You have learnt to talk nonsense seriously, and you have got into a way of telling fibs for the pleasure of telling them.

Its title was, A Word With You On Your Cap-Ribbons. My

The Eskimos believed that the Europeans had come to Greenland to learn manners and virtues.

First of all, the Captain rates the honorific 'sir.' You will render that honorific or I will plant my foot in your ass.

All well bred persons lie – Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think…