Quotes About Manners

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words large or size with rear end. Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.

To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

You want respect? Treat others with respect.

People kept on calling. At first Armando told them that Jeff was in the bathroom. Then, when people started telling him that Jeff was in the bathroom a lot, he started telling them that Jeff had Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

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

parents must constantly remind their children to say, "Thank you." It's one of the last and hardest things to teach naturally rebellious kids.

The only time people actually see that you're not listening to them is when you're displaying extreme impatience. You want them to hurry up and get to the point. People notice that. And they rarely think better of you for it. You may as well be shouting, "Next!" at them.

When you find yourself mentally or literally drumming your fingers while someone else is talking, stop the drumming. Stop demonstrating impatience when listening to someone. Stop saying (or thinking) "Next!" It's not only rude and annoying, but it's sure to inspire your employees to find their next boss.

Ma minds more than manners for the girls. She models an aesthetic appreciation of beautiful things, including these delicate floral offerings.

Sheba, who didn't especially like me, although she did serve me cookies when I was here before. I'd managed to get rid of them. My mother's cookies had spoiled me for anyone else's. I think I crumbled up Sheba's and tossed them off the porch. "How are you, Mr. Queen? I'm real sorry to

You don't have to thank me for doing my stupid job. But it is nice.

Seriously, I don't know why I didn't just say you're welcome and please get out of my cubicle so I can sit here and leak in peace.

We could kill them,' Stone suggested, not helpfully. It would have been a tense moment, except Heart sighed impatiently and said, 'Line-grandfather, not in front of company.' Delin lifted a hand. 'I know Stone is merely stimulating discussion.' Pearl eyed Stone and lifted her spines. 'Perhaps Stone could stop doing that.

He politely breathed up my nose. I had learned many years ago that this is the preferred greeting of most horses. They like to breathe up your nose. Especially when you're first introduced. And then, to be polite, you must breathe back up theirs.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.