Quotes About Manners

People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie.

Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.

A good host will point out food, snacks, and drinks that you're welcome to help yourself to, but if they don't, do not ask what is available. It sounds greedy.

Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life.

A man or woman can be known and respected for good taste, regardless of job or income level, if they make good choices in clothes, have good table manners, are kind and organize their home to look warm, welcoming, clean, and appropriate to their station in life.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

I don't get on the phone and prank people and things like that on the phone with people, no.

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

I'm not going out of my way to eat something that's not prepared for me.

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

The old injunction 'Don't talk with your mouth full' is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

I shake hands on the first date.

Any guy I date has to have manners - you know, get the door. And he has to have confidence and be secure in who he is.

Chivalry is dead.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

Patrons, don't berate bouncers for denying you entry.

I don't need to air any differences of opinion in public.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.