Quotes About Manners

It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a conclusion usually come to by those whose experience has been limited to their own country.

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life

She marched across to his desk, extended a hand, and told him cordially, "You look exactly right! Just as I thought! I would—" She broke it off because she was getting a deep freeze. He had moved no muscle, and the expression on his face, while not belligerent, was certainly not cordial. She drew back. He spoke. "I don't shake hands with you because you might later think it an imposition. We'll see. Sit down, Miss Eads.

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life. You

When I am expected at a certain hour it's nearly always Lily who comes, I think on account of some kind of a notion she has about a maid admitting a man who has a key. I have never tried to dope it. Other people's notions are none of my business unless they get in the way.

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life.

Would you mind removing your hat, Miss Dunn? I deduce the thing is a hat, because it's on your head. Thank you. I don't like restaurant conventions in my dining room.

I looked at her. In that getup, to me she was a treat; to Wolfe, in his own house, she would have been an impudence. "Because there's no chair on this floor big enough for him. I'll wait outside.

He dropped sheets on the fire, turned to look at her, and inquired, "Do you use 'infer' and 'imply' interchangeably, Miss Blount?" She did fine. She said simply, "No." "This book says you may. Pfui. I prefer not to interrupt this auto-da-fé. You wish to consult me?

MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

Enforced courtesy is worse than none.

The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary.

There's nothing wrong with hunting, in its place. But there are many preferable occupations when in the presence of a young woman.

Emily?" Her mother's strident voice echoed up the staircase. "Where are you, child? I told you we would be leaving at ten thirty on the dot. Come along. We can't keep the young men waiting. Best foot forward.

Freshen up? Is that some horrible transatlantic slang? If you mean for a rest, a wash, a change of clothes, then please say so. People always said what they meant in my day.

Next thing we know you'll be teaching Podge to say 'mirror' instead of 'looking glass' and 'serviette' instead of 'napkin.

You are a married couple, I take it?" And she gave us a hard stare, trying to see a wedding ring through my gloves, I suspected. "Of course," Darcy said briskly. "Mr. and Mrs. Chomondley-Fanshaw. That's spelled 'Featherstonehaugh,' by the way.

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

Mark Twain tiene una frase maravillosa: "No hay nada más molesto que dos personas hablando cuando uno está ocupado interrumpiendo".

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Stop treating your child as royalty whose every want must be met. Teach your child to turn demands into polite requests.

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

She never answers during the day, Max explained. She lets her machine pick up. People like you are the reason other people get answering machines to begin with, Miles told him. In fact, people like you are driving a lot of modern technology.

Do you always try to kill people when they blow their nose?