Quotes About Manners

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, "Oh, what an attractive room!" even if you think it's hideous.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

Comme il n'y avait pas de couverts, il a mangé avec ses doigts, mais en utilisant sa main gauche, ce qui est très grave, et constitue une offense délibérée dans l'Atlas, où la main gauche est considérée comme impure, m'a expliqué Valérie tandis que l'habitant nous jetait hors de sa maison. Étrange Aziz. Provocateur, irréligieux, inculte, ignorant de ses propres traditions ? Non. Il me tend des perches.

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.

Now I can't abide rudeness, even in so-called great artists. Rudeness and cruelty are the qualities I hate most (...). No, don't expect anything good from a rude man.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

Sometimes chivalry is just nice,

Don't ever be late. It's like proclaiming that your time is more important than someone else's.

Professor Asshole would never hold a door open, considering it a condescending, paternalistic passive-aggressive gesture perpetuating the male power structure.

he wanted to be best man. "That's old-school shit," Malone said. "That was our parents, our grandparents, it don't necessarily work that way anymore.

Always call them 'Sir.' They aren't any harder to kill later!

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.