Quotes About Manners

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

El insulto mental sólo admite el tuteo.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.

Good manners are not merely snobbish ornaments, as Mrs. Lippett's regime appeared to believe. They mean self-discipline and thought for others, and my children have got to learn them.

Please forgive me for being impertinent and ungrateful. I was badly brought up.

so you must be as punctilious in sending them as though it were a bill that you were paying. I hope that they will always be respectful in tone and will reflect credit on your training.

Drummond appreciated his guest's initial silence, his respect for the ancient, sacred act of imbibing. Drink first, talk later.

Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.' 'Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little.

Aha!" I snapped my fingers, not realizing I had spoken aloud until I saw the glare on the face of the elderly passing clergyman. In his day—a very long time ago, that was—women did not go about getting sudden ideas in the Cathedral Close. It wasn't done. He sniffed and turned his back.

People should think twice before making rude remarks," said Mrs. Lambchop. "And then not make them at all.

It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.

Now before we get into anything, ladies, no scratching, no spitting and no tattling to mummy.

It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

I should have said "powder room." That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of fresh flowers nearby, freshening my makeup, rather than sitting on a toilet.

As a respectable lady with excellent manners and now a good inheritance (if Sarah Browne's maid is to be believed), Miss Porter would be the perfect bride for a former rake of limited means like Lord John.

Both Pierson and Roselie gaped at her very proper response- for here they were making a very improper retreat out of Alack's, down the steps and nearly to the carriage-clogged street outside and Miss Tempest sounded like the finest graduate of a Bath school. I might be cowhanded, my lord, she told him pertly, but I am not rag-mannered. I like her, Roselie told her brother.I don't think you are alone in that regard, Tuck muttered, though no one was paying him much heed.

Grazie mille," I tell him with exaggerated politeness. A thousand thanks.

Fear had a tendency to drive away the courtesy of civilization.

What are you looking for?" she asked abruptly. "It's rather rude for a gentleman to enter a lady's room without permission." "I'm not a gentleman." "Really? I thought otherwise.

Apollo straddled the prone dandy and leaned down into his face, intimidating him as he'd dared to do to Lily. "Don't come… back until… you can talk… to her with a civil tongue.