Quotes About Manners

rum-drinking pirates, strong-willed women, courtly manners, eccentric behavior, gentle words, and lovely music.

These, then, were the images in my mental gazetteer of Savannah: rum-drinking pirates, strong-willed women, courtly manners, eccentric behavior, gentle words, and lovely music. That and the beauty of the name itself: Savannah.

Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it's done mainly for show, it's still a start.

Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others.

Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it's done mainly for show, it's still a start. It

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

If your birthday party fell on the same night as another birthday party, I'd get the other one out of the way first.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.

I'm a polite person. I'll tell you excuse me and shut the f*ck up in the same sentence.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy

Like the old saying goes, 'In order to get respect, you have to give respect.' So ask yourself this, are you giving out the respect that you want to receive?

A guy is a boy by birth, a man by age, but a gentleman by choice.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

That annoying moment when someone enters your room and leaves the door wide open when they leave.

Calling someone without texting first is the new showing up unannounced.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

It's so gross when teachers lick their finger and then give the paper to me. I don't really want your dried coffee on my paper.

I love the sound you make when you shut the fu.. up.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.