Quotes About Manners

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.