Quotes About Manners

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

If you're going to be rude, do it for a reason and get something from it.

It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.

As hospitality demanded the invitation, courtesy demanded acceptance

My mother taught me to be polite to dragons. Particularly polite, I mean; she taught me to be ordinary polite to everyone...but dragons are a special case. -Daystar

Si alguien con quien interactúas responde a tus preguntas felizmente pero no toma un descanso para preguntar cómo estás, entonces ese alguien debe callarse un poco. Si ese alguien eres tú, tú eres quien debe callarse.

Follow this simple rule to break out of this behavior pattern: don't share your opinion unless asked.

I don`t know if he was English but he spoke like it. He said good afternoon when everybody else said hardy weather or she looks like rain.

I'll ask ye this once," the woman says, lifting the rifle again. "Am I gonna need this?" I exchange a glance with Viola. "No," I say. "No, mam," Viola says. Mam? I think. "It's like sir, bonny boy." The woman slings the rifle over her shoulder by its strap. "For if yer a-talking to a lady.

Wallis,' said Maturin, 'I am happy to see you. How is your penis?

Wallis," said Maturin, "I am happy to find you here. How is your penis?

I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

Poor manners on my part. What is your name?" "Ria." "Ria, is that short for Rian?" "Yes, it is," she smiled. "Rian, would you please cross your legs?" The request was made with such an earnest tone that not even a titter escaped the class. Looking puzzled, Rian crossed her legs. "Now that the gates of hell are closed," Hemme said in his normal rougher tones. "We can begin.

Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.

So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting down a dirty utensil was considered crude, for example. That meant it was perfectly acceptable to lick one's knife clean. In fact, if you didn't want to dirty your napkin it was the only seemly thing to do.

Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.

Apparently the soft cheese I'd been served possessed a rind.A rind any civilized person would have recognized as inedible and meant to be pared away. Barbarian that I am,I had eaten all of it.It had tasted quite nice too. Still,I took not of this and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.

Es un asno muy culto, se le nota el porte! ¡Y por un penique de cobre te dejará que lo montes!

Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.

La etiqueta es un puñado de normas que la gente utiliza para poder ser grosera en público con los demás.

It was better to be gentle and polite. It was the worst sort of selfishness to force yourself upon the world.

Every culture is different, but one thing is always true: the surest way to give offense is to refuse the hospitality of your host.

Si c'est un valet, annonce un valet. Si c'est un pique, annonce un pique. Mais pour une putain, tu dois toujours dire une « dame ». Leur vie est déjà assez pénible, et la politesse n'a jamais tué personne

The difference is between saying something TO a person and saying something ABOUT a person. The first might be rude but the second is always gossip".