Quotes About Manners

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

Oh and I also got cross at a dinner once when this woman was going on and on about how she would never read on download, that there was nothing like a real book and – I promise I normally am never rude to people but she was being truly insufferable – I said, 'Well, they're really only for people who read a lot' which was mean of me but quite satisfying also.

I thought he was kind of a dick too, but I didn't say so. You're not supposed to join in when someone is bashing his father.

but I can tell she doesn't appreciate being offered a drink in her own home by someone who doesn't live there.

No, Peter, that was not a genuine thank you, so you do not need to say you're welcome.

Wow, how rude.

GUY TIP #18: Just because you can urinate anywhere you want doesn't mean you should-even if your aim is so good you can spell out "Red Sox Rule" in capital letters with once taking a break.

People can have nicknames. Body parts should not.

According to Grandad, being a vegetarian wasn't about just health or cruelty of money or flavor: it was about manners. He said that stealing milk and eggs and honey was enough of a liberty without hacking off someone's leg and then drowning it in gravy. He had a point.

Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only being uncomfortable. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman

Quiet customers get served first.

Do you always introduce yourself by insulting people?

I really feel as human beings, we need more training in our basic social skills. Conversational distance: Don't you hate these people that talk into your mouth like you're a clown at a drive-through?

Not doing something crude right off is about as close as a guy like me ever gets to class.

I'm done peeing now." "Thank you for letting me know.

Never, ever point out that a woman is eating too much.

In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.

Do you know how one knows a cavalier when one sees him? He always behaves decently when he is drunk.

Hard... What does he mean by hard? And am I like that? Or is it only that I have no time for the fraud of so-called good manners, which strews a little glitter over black truths, and thinks that that has made them disappear.

That's one trouble about the raids. . . People do nothing but make tea and expect you to drink it.

She asked, what would he do if a lady happened to insist? Turner replied, "Madam, do you think that would be a lady?

A battle followed, fought in true Gilded Age fashion with oblique snubs and poisonous courtesy.

Everybody offers to buy one a drink; but nobody ever dreams of buying one a sandwich.