Quotes About Manners

already a work of art. "Now let's go greet the dowager. I own, I'm unduly

The poets of other countries learned from the troubadours many lessons in literary form; their refining influence upon manners was also widely felt and their attitude toward woman was generally adopted. Provençal literature

The poets of other countries learned from the troubadours many lessons in literary form; their refining influence upon manners was also widely felt and their attitude toward woman was generally adopted.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

I leaned over and slapped his face sideways and backhanded it back to center position. Manners, I said.

You did very well, old friend. Shall I blush and simper? If you don't keep it up for long. I hate blushing and simpering in a grown man when it goes on and on.

How can a man know he is one when his highest aim is minding his manners?

SIR CHARLES. [Hastily] You smoke, Mr. MALISE? MALISE. Too much. SIR CHARLES. Ah! Must smoke when you think a lot. MALISE. Or think when you smoke a lot. SIR CHARLES. [Genially] Don't know that I find that. LADY DEDMOND. [With her clear look at him] Charles!

It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary.

Mr. Barton, as he preferred to be called, ran over people by barking first and trying to embarrass.

Gant abruptly stood and said, "Thank you for your time, Mr. Koane. I'll see myself out.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more. It brings the mind into form,—for the mind is like the body.

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

THERE'S NO NEED TO BE CRUDE,' said Owen Meany.

I always made an awkward bow.

the visitors to that questionable museum would defecate into their garish tourist outfits

If someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, belittle them. It's better to be an asshole than look stupid.

For a generation of kids who grew up without a home phone, basic telephone etiquette is increasingly an issue.

Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.