Quotes About Manners

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.

And even under extreme tension, which he had been under, too, he had been polite, considerate, respectful, and kind at all times.

It's probably polite to pretend you don't see people coming out of pawnshops, anyhow.

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second "you." "People lose teeth talking like that." Spade's voice was still amiable though his face had become wooden. "If you want to hang around you'll be polite." The boy repeated his two words.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

2. The instant the doors open, you want to push forward as hard as possible, in an effort to get onto the train without letting anybody off. This is very important. If anybody does get off, it is legal to tackle him and drag him back on.

My mom said you always write thank-you letters, and besides, I wanted to.

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy

O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confin'd within the weak list of a country's fashion; we are the makers of manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our places stops the mouth of all find-faults.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?' she asked. 'Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?' 'You misbehaved monstrously,' he said, 'and were a triumph.