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Quotes About Manners

In beauty school, you learn etiquette.
~ Didi Conn
Cussing ain't for everybody.
~ Eazy-E
inquisidor le interrumpió y le ofreció la mano, lacia, para que hiciera la pertinente genuflexión.
~ Unknown
Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'" I stared at him, shocked. The smile widened. "You will say 'please' before and 'thank you' after." Nervous laughter bubbled up. "You've gone insane. All that peroxide in your hair finally did your brain in, Goldilocks.
~ Ilona Andrews
How come adults got away with saying things that would sound rude coming out of her mouth?
~ Ilsa J. Bick
Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble.
~ Unknown
Politeness will be a great acquisition, if it does no more than impart grace to manners; but its function does not stop here. For propriety, springing as it does from motives of benevolence and modesty, and actuated by tender feelings toward the sensibilities of others, is ever a graceful expression of sympathy. Its requirement is that we should weep with those that weep and rejoice with those that rejoice.
~ Inaz? Nitobe
What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Diplomacy is to do and say, The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
~ Isaac Goldberg
Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest things in the nicest way.
~ Isaac Goldberg
Diplomasi adalah mengatakan hal yang paling buruk dengan cara yang paling manis.
~ Isaac Goldberg
The secret is treating family like guests and guests like family,
~ Unknown
Fontenelle was the most civilized man of his time, and indeed of most times.
~ Isaiah Berlin
So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left —" Don't talk to your mother like that.
~ J. K. Rowling
Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home.
~ Unknown
Andrea was right. "Dumb" is not a nice word. In fact, there's only one word in the English language that's worse than dumb. "Dumbhead.
~ Dan Gutman
Miss Daisy, if I can go to the bathroom even though I don't really have
~ Dan Gutman
It's not a woman's fault if a man decides to behave like an ass.
~ Unknown
He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins.
~ Unknown
You can't just walk up to a stand of unsuspecting oaks and start touching. They'd think you're getting fresh with them.
~ Unknown
You have the manners of a trough animal," she said scathingly. "Aye, well, at least I won't be as hungry as one when I've finished both my portion and yers. Good stuff, this. Are ye certain you don't want any?" "It looks disgusting." "Oatmeal and peas. Navy food. Puts hair on yer chest." "I don't want… hair on my chest. I want to go home.
~ Unknown
I think you should be nicer to Sir Graham, Majesty," Aisling declared, and sat down on the deck beside Maeve's chair. "After all, he did give you these roses." "And that pretty dress." "And that poem on your breakfast tray." "I think he wrote it himself.
~ Unknown
It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
~ Danica McKellar
Stop saying no offense," I said, "when you say offensive things. It's not a free pass.
~ Daniel Handler