Quotes About Manners

I've always thought that a little judicious hospitality was an essential lubricant in most human affairs.

It was a pleasure when a person remembered that good manners cost fuck-all, and it went a long way.

No one, no matter who they are, is above common courtesy. Remember that,

My guest was not the sort to whom you would say, "Please drop by again when you are next around". Once is enough.

Knowledge is power. Always pays to be nice until nice no longer serves you.

It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she must not shout; and she must not, while wearing her bridal veil, smoke a cigarette

You can't sass me when you're holding your mouth closed.

A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth. Lucien Fairchild

Never trust a man who hollers at the help

You don't have to be Southern to have good manners. And you don't have to be a Yankee to make a total ass of yourself.

Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility?

I hope I did not offend Miss Nightingale by complaining about the rat," said the countess. "I like her very much. Miss Nightingale, I mean, not the rat.

Close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

Fellas! Want to drive her wild? Then learn how to fold a goddamn bath towel, Gerry, jesus FUCK.

It was one of life's rules – Never trust someone who is willingly rude to low-paid service staff –

Never trust someone who is willingly rude to low-paid service staff