Quotes About Manners

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.

Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

Be nice until it becomes a habit. Give thanks like it is second nature.

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

Just as evil communication and company corrupts good manners, good communication and company can correct bad manners

If you can't be pretty, at least be nice.

Shape your behavior and think about on how to make a good impression to others.

It is better to be polite than rude.

Never consider yourself smart when you don't know how to treat people correctly.

Never stick your tongue out at someone you can't lick.

We need to take out the trash." As it happens, I have no intention of actually analyzing that data. Nor am I proposing to my son that we take a family outing to the trash bin. In many situations, people use the word we when they mean you. It serves as a polite form to order others around.

There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.

It must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please every feature works.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

You can tell a lot about someone's character from the way they treat waiters or shop assistants or bus drivers when they think no one is watching.

In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility.

You can't buy class, but you can buy tolerance for its absence.