Quotes About Manners

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Our words reveal our thoughts; Our manners mirror our self esteem; Our actions reflect our character; Our habits predict the future.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Mother's words of wisdom: "Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!"

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking

Good talk saves the food

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.

Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

In some families, 'please' is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was 'sorry'.

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.

Gossip is the story of our lives," she said.``It is the way a society works out how it is to behave. Our manners, our morals,our mores

Well, son, you cain't go thru life chunkin' things at all the ugly women you meet.

Thank you' is a wonderful phrase. Use it. It will add stature to your soul.

Check that - I've found the end. Nick, please be kind enough to withdraw your head to a reasonable distance from my hindquarters.' -Ajay

I don't like being talked into things by ungraceful people.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.