Quotes About Manners

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

My biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember.

Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.

PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary.

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they're stupid.

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.

Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.

Take care of your manners as seriously as your money.

You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love.