Quotes About Manners

I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.

Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.

Where I'm from, we don't do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don't want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching.

There's a thing that happens to Midwesterners - we spend a lot of time talking about having a different set of rules about manners. I don't know about ethics, but certainly about manners, what you would say and what you wouldn't say. And that is not very East coast.

I can't stand cocky, rude people.

There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country? The answer is simple. We no longer have manners to speak of.

Always compliment someone if you can, I think.

I never leave my computer open. That becomes a big OCD thing. If I see people leaving their laptops open, I always close them.

I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

There's always a better word than a swear word.

It's a sin to swear.

I never heckle. I never swear.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave decently, civilly.

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.

The guy is looney,' Belle said thoughtfully, 'but also generally polite. Polite is always worth something.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

Before Thomas could say a word, before Molly could protest, Bailey leaned over the table and kissed her firmly on the lips—on the lips, in the dining room, under the crystal chandelier that swayed when she opened her eyes. "Bailey, I told you that until we're wed you're to pretend there's no agreement." "Must've forgot." He picked up his hat and strutted out the door before her shocked father could stop him.