Quotes About Manners

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

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

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.

up till now I have retained a deep conviction that a person is nowhere revealed so clearly as when he eats.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners? I don't know, but I bet they're having more fun than I am.

The manners that apply specifically during courtship come to be replaced over the course of marriage by a different set of manners, embodying the residual pettiness, complaining, and faultfinding of childhood.

A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall

Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

The closest she got to pretence was politeness.

Etiquette may be bad, but embarassment is worse.

Etiquette may be bad but embarrassment is worse.

You just can't go around putting your hand through people's faces. It's rude for one thing. Deeply unsettling for another.

Well," Skulduggery said. "That was rude.

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