Quotes About Manners

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

Ms. Connell sighs because wealth does not equate to good manners.

Huh? Okay." I raise my brows. But the Consul stares back at me with unblinking disdain. "Your second lesson is never to use non-existent words or animalistic sounds worthy of a gurgling infant child in your adult communication.

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

Humility is the best dress you can wear

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

You don't want to ask after the health of anyone, if you're a funeral director. They think maybe you're scouting for business.

At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.

Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

They were all kind to their hostess, because it made life easier.

The brain is a funny thing, the way it works, always looking for the most polite explanation...

others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy—that is, a lack of manners.

when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . .

Nothing could be more impolite. To say, "Is your sheep genuine?" would be a worse breach of manners.

no one can err in serving steak to new-found guest first time.

it was a point of good manners not to sit with a clique of the same friends all the time, and it meant that conversation at dinner had to be open and general rather than close and gossipy

Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.

steeped like a teabag in aristocratic pretensions...