Quotes About Manners

My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.

If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.

An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.

Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by.

Brittles stood at attention until Jack looked at him, then he bowed slightly. "I'm sorry to disturb you, sir, but an Inspector Swindler from Scotland Yard wishes to speak with you. Are you home?" "Of course, I'm home, man. I'm sitting right here.

You are the politest man I know, Jake Burnett." "Had politeness beat into me.

You're not being a gentleman," she chided. "Did you truly want me to be?

Everyone in America is a European—or the descendant of a European. We become Americans when we leave behind us all the ancient prejudices and manners of the Old World and when we accept new ones from the way of life in the New World. Here, individuals of all nations are melted into one race of man.

Clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth

So ingrained, Gamache knew, was our training to be polite that even in the midst of a terrible personal loss people still smiled.

Fuckin' inconsiderate; excuse my english.

Comment allez-vous?" asked Gamache, losing his hold on the wild eye. "I'm doing well, merci. You?

He must be aged to have good manners. Modern young men have to be angry, and that means plain rude.

If someone else takes a bite of my food, I have to cut off the part that his/her saliva has touched before I can eat any more of it.

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

Be nice to people. On phone and in-person. Don't wait to know a person before you treat them well; treat them well because you're a good person. That's how true friends live.

This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

Good manners were a part of his inheritance, like left-handedness or hemophilia.