Quotes About Manners

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

When I was a kid, we called every teacher, every parent - anyone over the age of 20, it seemed - 'Mr. or Mrs. so-and-so.'

I want to see what this baby's going to be into; how I can participate in his interests. You know, teach him things, see the manners that he will inhabit from both of us and see the first smile and what he's gonna say first. Hopefully 'dada' not 'mama.'

But my manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

Daniello, you do not like the bread? Eat! ... per favore, have some pasticcio di gnocchi alla boscaiola! " "As long as you don't ask me to repeat the name," Dan replied. Luna Amato chuckled. "Charming boy." "Handsome, too," Dan said.

As our lawyer friend had noticed, men kiss other men. They squeeze shoulders, slap backs, pummel kidneys, pinch cheeks. When a Provençal man is truly pleased to see you, there is a real possibility of coming away from his clutches with superficial bruising.

Respect is not a feeling. It is how we treat another person.

He came in and took a piss in my hotel bathroom without even closing the door as I'm standing right there. I'm like, "Alright. You're comfortable." It was like we knew each other for four or five years, even though we had never met.

The videotapes of Nobel's interview with Adam Leroy Lane reveal him as a sanctimonious fat-fuck of a good ol' boy redneck cracker. He drawls, "I got manners. I treat people the way I want to be treated...

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

When Mathewson arrived in the majors, most first class and many second class hotels would not host big league teams for fear that the players' behavior would offend other guests. The hotels that did admit ballplayers often made them eat in a separate dining room. Players were well known for pinching waitresses and wrecking furniture, and if they didn't like the steaks they were served, they would nail them to the restaurant's walls.

High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.

As a rule, children shouldn't whine in class, of course -- unless it's at the end of story time. Then it's okay.

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

I didn't get etiquette classes, which is a shame because someone like me needs them.

To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.

I think you can show off too much, and that would have been such a no-no from me growing up.

I always hold doors open, I always try to be nice.

'Be nice' is my family's basic rule but one that often goes unfollowed in Hollywood. There's always a moment when you can choose between being snarky and being kind. I opt for the latter - it's much less exhausting!