Quotes About Manners

It's called being polite; they probably didn't teach you that at home. Doesn't mean I like you or anything.

It's your chili dog. Clean it up. It's your turn to clean. The house. Not your trash, which you can walk your leatherfaced-ass unto the kitchen to throw away.

Ouch. Cursing—not so dashing.

When will I be canonized, sir?" "Smart-mouthing your elders will forever keep

My father used to say that someone who used foul language was someone who needed to study vocabulary because there were more civilized ways to get one's point across.

It's not polite to invite yourself along.

It was Lord of the Flies without table manners.

respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior

I waved pleasantly after him, thinking how much I should enjoy sticking a fork into him, when the time came.

You've not been sleeping proper," Byrd said accusingly. "I can tell. You've been a-wallowing on your pillow; your hair's a right rat's nest!" "I do apologize, Tom," Grey said politely. "Perhaps I should sleep upright in a chair, in order to make your work easier?" (Haunted Soldier)

Far be it from me to offer you moral advice. But you are not --repeat not--to be questioning whores in any deeply personal manner. Do I make myself clear? Auntie! he said, pretending shock. The idea! But a broad grin spread across his tattooed face.

Ye've not said grace yet," he said severely, small face screwed into a frown. Obviously he considered me a conscienceless heathen, if not downright depraved.

You must not suggest any hint of scandal, and - just as important - you must not cause jealousy. Be sweet and unassuming, always admire your companions' frocks and dismiss your own, and do not bat your eyes at their sons or brothers, should such be present. […] And as she had no intention whatever of attracting a potential husband, she was extremely popular with the young women of society. (A Fugitive Green)

No, that's all right," she said, and then yawned involuntarily, gaping so widely that she startled herself and clapped a hand belatedly over her mouth. "Oh, dear. I do beg your pardon, Mrs. Fraser." That made me smile; she had John's elegant manners—perhaps Hal did, too, when he wasn't engaging in undiluted bastardliness.

Don't fart above your arsehole.

Lord John had been nothing but courtesy itself to me. More than that, he had been intelligent, thoughtful—thoroughly charming, in fact. And listening to him making intelligent, thoughtful, charming conversation with Jamie knotted my insides and made me clench my hands under cover of the quilt. You are an idiot, I told myself savagely.

I would have liked to know what Emily Post had to recommend in a situation like this, but as Miss Post wasn't present, I was forced to improvise.

I don't know why your husband does not beat you regularly," he remarked, shaking his head. "Or at least keep you locked up safely at home. Has he the slightest idea Ã¢â'¬Â¦?" "Sir Richard is a most accomplished diplomat," she replied with complacence. "He has a great facility for not knowing things that it is expedient not to know.

Now, me lord, you know you oughtn't talk like that at this hour of the morning. Yougot to pardon his lordship, sir," he said apologetically to Jones. "His father—theduke, you know—had him schooled in logic. He can't really help it, like." Spoken by a most loyal valet, Tom Bryd, in defense of the inherit workings of the mind of his employer, Lord John Grey

You may," Tom Byrd corrected, entering with his hands full of grooming implements, "once I've put his lordship's hair to rights." He fixed Grey with a minatory eye. "You're not a-going in to dinner like that, me lord, and don't you think it. You sit down there." He pointed sternly to a stool, and Lieutenant-Colonel Grey, commander of His Majesty's forces in Jamaica, meekly obeyed the dictates of his twenty-one-year-old valet.

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.

As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.

Oh, I'd never put my elbows on the table.

I think the problem today is that there is no social etiquette.