Quotes About Manners

Being agreeable' is the highest duty of any human being mingling with other people….Practicing good manners should be as natural as displaying the teeth").

You cannot love more than you do, but you can be more courteous when showing it!

Good manners warred with curiosity, and lost.

Fear had a tendency to drive away the courtesy of civilization.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

I wonder if it's rude for a deaf person to talk with food in their hands.

Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.

Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.

There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.