Quotes About Manners

Höflichkeit ist oft Angst, Liebenswürdigkeit ist immer Mut. Aber es ist das Mitgefühl, das dich menschlich macht. Hab mehr Mitgefühl, und du wirst menschlicher.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

a classic example of Robert Heinlein's famous saying, that an armed society is a polite society.

A talent for forgetting is necessary to maintain civility.

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Note, Religion teaches good manners, and obliges us to give honour to those to whom honour is due.

I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners .

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

People are either born hosts or born guests.

She found the proper phrases to greet each person, affording them dignity and respect without relinquishing an iota of the respect due to her.

Out of the corner of his eye Wycliff saw the little maid's cheeks turn pink. He'd forgotten how adorably prudish and modest English women could be.

For you, Lady Copley, Lady Agatha wishes you to have her china set, since you complimented it." Blake bit back laughter at Lady Copley's expression. She had loathed the china set, obviously, and only complimented it as part of the games. But Agatha had known how to discern the truth from the lies.

Ali mu ne dam zadovoljstvo da se opere mojom grubom rije?i, toliko nije zaslužio.

I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

the Please was more like a command than a request

Mother gave a flick of a glance at the fork in Tori's hand. "Children without manners are a wound in a mother's side.

In no country is it more important to cultivate good manners, than in our own," Eliza Farrar wrote, "where we acknowledge no distinctions but what are founded on character and manners." America's

I know she's young, but she's old enough to know that such blatant bumpwatching is just about the rudest thing you can do to someone in my concave condition.

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

I told them he'd be able to get you to go out." Rianne folded her winnings and tucked the bills into her blazer pocket. "Look at him." "He's right here, Ri," Carla murmured, shooting Keenan an apologetic look. "We've tried to teach her manners, but..." She shrugged. "It's like housebreaking a dog. If we'd had her when she was a puppy, maybe." Rianne smacked her on the arm, but she was grinning. "Woof, woof.

Fart: to break wind behind. As when we gun discharge Although the bore be ne'er so large Before the flame the muzzle burst Just at the breech it flashes first; So from my lord his passion broke, He farted first and then he spoke.