Quotes About Manners

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying'

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

this German officer produced a cigar before Mannerheim had finished eating and asked if it would bother the Marshal if he smoked it. Mannerheim fixed the Wehrmacht officer with a gaze that would penetrate armor plate and cut him dead by replying evenly: 'I don't know. No one has ever tried it.' ',

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.

Report of fashions in proud Italy,Whose manners still our tardy apish nationLimps after in base imitation.

The mirror of all courtesy.

I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Keep a good tongue in your head.

'Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time, in you?

The very pink of courtesy.

Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

I rarely ask people about their health, because at my age people will be happy to tell you.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.