Quotes About Manners

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.

I'm known for being quite gobby, but also, I'm quite old fashioned in the sense that I like writing letters.

Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.

Granddad taught me a long time ago, act like you've been there before.

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

While speaking in the NA, one must maintain respect.

I'm happy to talk to anybody but do it in the right manner.

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right and to have manners.

American manners are different than British manners.

There's a real intense thing about manners in the South, a real prescribed way to be a woman.

Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.

He held out his hand to Sophie, just like Mrs. Pentstemmon, but a little less royally. Sophie levered herself up, wondering if she was meant to kiss this hand or not. But since she felt more like raising her stick and beating the King over the head with it, she shook the King's hand and gave a creaking little curtsy.

What's the good of being civilized, that's what I'd like to know? It just means other people can break the rules and you can't.

Hasn't anyone ever told you that the Devil, however he appears, is never a perfect gentleman?

Kimse dedikodu yapmadan ÅŸapka alamaz

It was a very powerful politeness.

Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

Greenberg cites the example of a planter who was challenged to a duel because he told a fellow planter that he smelled bad. "When the man of honor is told that he smells," Greenberg writes, "he does not draw a bath—he draws his pistol.