Quotes About Manners

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left —" "Don't talk to your mother like that.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

Even a wolf knows how to be polite when animalistic humans have no clue about politeness

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.