Quotes About Manners

You've got to be nice to people when you're on your way up, because you never know who you are going to meet on the way down.

I think it's an important lesson for a child. How to behave humanely toward another human being.

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

I'd say I'm quite well behaved! It's just the way I've been brought up, really.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

Dorks are not exempt from bad behaviour.

Bad behaviour on TV is quite nauseating and putting off.

For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of like-minded, and savoring teachers who seemed to be ambassadors from other, richer, writer worlds. Jefferson believed Williamsburg the finest school of manners and morals that ever existed in America.

The world can be divided between people who can get a waiter's attention and those who can't.

Sure, he's an ass, but remember, I have to live in their house. Anyway, that's how you treat people like that: Make 'em know how dumb they are, and they go away feeling a little less pleased with themselves.

To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners

Filtering isn't phoniness—it's civilization.

She noted with pleasure that he'd already dispensed with a salutation

Never mind what's going on underneath. As long as we're all 'civil.

Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.

My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.

My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory. The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate

Tata krama adalah seni untuk membuat orang merasa tidak canggung bercakap-cakap dengan kita.

nas relações vulgares da vida, parecem estúpidos, mazombos, enfadonhos, malcriados.

He was courteous, obliging, and sugary to them, like a suburban dentist.

Nessy had never believed that fear and respect were the same thing. Nor did she believe that the castle's manners were beyond redemption, for although her accursed home was mostly bad it was at least a little bit good. She hoped it would be good enough.

A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.