Quotes About Manners

We've had this conversation already and watch your mouth, you fuckhead, there's a lady here.

Fact: I don't know of a single girl who doesn't wish the show-it-all boxer-shorts phenomenon would go away as well. Guys, we just don't want to see your underwear. Truthfully, we believe that there is a direct correlation between how much underwear you show and how much you've got upstairs, if you know what I mean.

one of the true tests to tell if a man's been raised right and is a gentleman is whether he stands when a lady enters the room—or

Mom always said a simple thank you covered a lot of bases.

It feels like people will poke a spear in anyplace they can draw blood these days. It wasn't that way when I was growing up. Even in politics, people had some…" I search for the word, and the best thing I can come up with is "decency.

healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

A surgeon should always be soberly dressed . . . rather after the manner of a cleric, for any discrete man clad in cleric's dress may sit at a gentleman's table. A surgeon must also have clean hands and well-shaped nails, free of dirt . . . It is also expedient for the surgeon to be able to tell good honest tales that may make the patient laugh.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

If you don't like your teeth; keep your mouth shut.

In my opinion, kissing a lady's hand is a fine tradition. After all, a man must start somewhere.

Manners differ with climates; the northern nations are distinguished for etiquette, the eastern for ceremony, and the southern for courtesy.

There's nothing in the world like etiquette In kingly chambers, or imperial halls, As also at the race and county balls.

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

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

Courts are, unquestionably, the seats of politeness and good breeding; were they not so, they would be the seats of slaughter and desolation. Those who now smile upon and embrace, would affront and stab, each other, if manners did not interpose.

Sikap yang santun harus menghiasi orang yang berpengetahuan dan melicinkan jalannya dalam pergaulan.

These days, however, gentlemanly status seems to be more a question of appearance than conduct.

Shockingly tactless," Lady Warford said. "Unfortunately, Longmore can be tactless quite fluently in several languages

By gad, is that you, Ainswood? I haven't seen you in a dog's age. How's the gout? Still troubling you?

But you are a charming and beautiful dunces, madame. And," he continued in French, "a charming and beautiful woman can get away with murder. Can you imagine that any man here would prosecute you for assassinating our language?

Everybody knew gentlemen could be obtuse, especially when it came to matters of the heart. Everybody knew, as well, that gentlemen needed to believe they were in charge. Therefore, ladies had to learn ways of communicating the obvious without being obvious about it.