Quotes About Manners

Really, sometimes it would be much easier if one were allowed to simply hit gentlemen over the head.

As he brought her back to her waiting parent he lowered his head to hers and said, I'll call on you next week, shall I? The hand on his arm jerked, but she kept her composure. I beg your pardon, Your Grace? I intend to court you, he informed her kindly, and then added to make it perfectly clear, and make you my wife. She swallowed. Oh, no. He smiled. Oh, yes.

She ate like a polite wolf.

I do not doubt he has a low opinion of women too. Gallantry is often a cloak for contempt.

There is no creature better at delicate rudeness than a cat...

For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own - ...

There are occasions upon which a candid expression of opinion may be not only rude, but counterproductive. L

All right, Vicky. . . . I may call you Vicky, mayn't I? No, I said.

Have you noticed, how difficult it is to be improper without men?

But Briggs, when he realized her intention, leapt to his feet, snatched chairs which were not in her way out of it, kicked a footstool which was not in her path on one side, hurried to the door, which stood wide open, in order to hold it open, and followed her through it, walking by her side along the hall.

The young man smiled—certainly a very personable young man—and explained that the light was no longer strong enough to do any more. Again in this explanation did he call me gnädiges Fräulein, and again was I touched by so much innocence. And his German, too, was touching; it was so conscientiously grammatical, so laboriously put together, so like pieces of Goethe learned by heart. By

Crumpling up the paper object which some of the visitors called a serviette, and some a tablenapkin, the ones who called it a tablenapkin being much shocked at the ones who called it a serviette, and the ones who called it a serviette not even being aware that they thereby placed themselves irrevocably beyond the pale.

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

The greater man the greater courtesy.

I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

todo es tan limpio que cuando nos acercamos a la caja con nuestra bandeja y la mujer nos pregunta si deseamos agregarle alguna salsa a lo que vamos a comer, provoca decirle no gracias, mosquéemelo un poquito

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favoured, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

De fapt, chiar ne comportam ca niÈ™te domniÈ™oare. Aruncam pietrele înf??urate în s?culeÈ›i de pânz? pe care îi confecÈ›ionasem special cu mâinile noastre pentru a pune pietrele în ei. AÈ™a eram de domniÈ™oare.

I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are preferable to feelings. I honestly don't know yet what free is, but I know what it isn't.

A person of her class. A person whose habits and manners stamped out the development of desire and predilection.

Polly, who made a point of finding the good in everyone, didn't like Seela either. She practiced a set of showy good manners that were actually bad manners, such as explaining why she couldn't accept an invitation or complimenting someone's dress.

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.

I suppose, too, that the moment when a man hears that a girl's fiance has died only that day is the last moment that that man should ever begin to fall in love with her, but I'm afraid that's just how it was. The emotions are no respecters of the niceties, the proprieties and decencies of this life...