Quotes About Manners

It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race

It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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

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

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

If I'm out to dinner with a group of friends, and somebody offers to pay for the check, I immediately reach for my wallet. Inside is a note that says, "Say thanks!"

How's it going down there?" "It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

Simon gave her a startled look. 'I don't believe I have ever been condescended to by a woman before.' She shrugged. 'It was probably past time.

The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating, " said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?""Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty, " said Edmund.

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a 'No,' sweetens truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

Weve all met people who are supposedly incredibly intelligent but dont know which way to sit on a lavatory.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.