Quotes About Manners

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

This, he thought, was how women roped you in. They added you to lists and forced you to confirm and commit. They impressed upon you that if you didn't show up a plate of hot food would go begging, a gold-backed chair would remain unoccupied, a cardboard place name would sit shamefully upon a table, announcing your rudeness to the world.

A clever, pretty girl with nice manners, but her willingness to meet him the very night following their first introduction, and that night a Saturday to boot, hinted at recklessness, or perhaps neediness.

All well bred persons lie—Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think… William Congreve, Love for Love Strike's

Rudeness isn't funny.' 'It bloody is,' said the first twin, to the raucous laughter of the second.

Erudite, for a woman who confuses "you're" and "your" and goes in for random capitalisation.' 'We

Life in squats with my mother hadn't really prepared me for what to expect from the aristocracy. On balance, I'd have to say people were a lot better behaved in the squats.

Put them through, please," said Strike.

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.

person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.

And a 2015 study by Trevor Foulk and his colleagues from the University of Florida shows that even a single exposure to a rude person (e.g., a mildly insulting email from a customer) can turn a person into a "carrier," who in turn infects others with the negative behavior—so it spreads much "like the common cold.

When a guest is rude, angry, swearing loudly, or visibly upset, cast members not only try to calm him or her; they are adept at reducing the exposure of other guests to such un-Disney malice and misery.

Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory out allowing for arbitrary power but be excessive, brusque use of it by a particular individual.

Except for shooting folks in the face and cutting off ears, the lanky killer had impeccable manners.

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

Broke the ice with, "Don't you think it curious that men shake hands with the same hand they use to wipe their arses?

A child should always say what's trueAnd speak when he is spoken to,And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.

Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author will have to be respected, and the machine will have to mind its manners

New Money wore dinner suits, which it called tuxedos, and smoked big cigars from which it removed the band before lighting up—an unthinkable solecism, for

Don't let's spoil the evening,' Ewing said quickly, before Tim had time to speak.

The telephone is there for your convenience, not for the convenience of your callers. Yet, as soon as we hear the phone ring, we act as if we are firefighters rushing to a five-alarm fire. We run to pick it up as if our lives depended on the call being answered at once. I have seen people interrupt quiet family dinners, dedicated reading times and meditation periods to answer

you can say whatever you want so long as you say it with respect.

y nos invitó a todos a que nos comprometiéramos no solo a ser los mejores en lo que hacíamos, sino también a tratar a cada persona con una cortesía exquisita y un respeto extraordinario.

I hate to say it, boss, but anything I learn I pick up from your vibes. Ain't no one else around to teach me manners and like that.