Quotes About Manners

The host with the most horrible manners. If he invites you, send a sick note. If he insists, take to your bed and die.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

An armed society is a polite society.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Mma Makutsi pondered this. Why are there fewer and fewer gentlemen, Mma Ramotswe? It is our fault, Mma. It is the fault of ladies. Why is that? Because we have allowed men to stop behaving as gentlemen, and when you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do. She looked at Mma Makutsi across the steering wheel. That is well known, I think, Mma. That is well known.

Insincerity had never come easily to her, but good manners required it on occasion, even if a superhuman effort was needed.

To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or bold simply because they used such language; each time they opened their mouths they proclaimed I am a person who is poor in words.

It shall be an offence for any man, either a husband or other person of the male sex, married or otherwise, being over the age of twelve years, to throw any item of clothing having been worn by the said person for whatever length of time, upon the floor of any bathroom or any room adjacent to and connected to a bathroom, without good cause.

There is a marked decline in something we value. It's the destruction of civility, said the Duke. Twenty years ago, people may have had their differences of opinion - of course they did- but they did not abuse one another for it. They respected those with whom they disagreed. They spoke courteously.

That is important," said Mma Makutsi from behind her desk. "One does not want a lady who talks too much.

It's the destruction of civility," said the Duke. "Twenty years ago, people may have had their differences of opinion – of course they did – but they did not abuse one another for it. They respected those with whom they disagreed. They spoke courteously.