Quotes About Manners

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.' 'I don't think he is,' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

adore having you. It's only Ian; he was saying tonight he wondered if you wouldn't feel more comfortable if you paid something…

The Grace of God is in courtesy';

I am sorry to disturb you,' said James politely, 'but these people wished to shoot us.

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

They conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park.

You're very polite, but I belong to another generation

Do you mind if I pull down the curtain?

She was sorry, and rather revolted at his dirty hands, but she laughed in a well-bred way, as though it were nothing unusual to her to watch a man walking in a slow dream.

Maggie was the only person she knew with genuine class. "Damn it to hell!" she yelled to the cats. "What ever happened to people behaving like ladies and gentlemen?" The cats had no clue, and got up and left the room. As she sat

I don't mean to be rude, but

I've always been treated in a friendly manner, and even people I hardly know have rarely been rude or brusque or cold to me. In certain people that friendly manner, with my encouragement, might have been converted into love or affection, but I've never had the patience or mental concentration to even want to make the effort.

Hablar es tener demasiada consideración por los demás. Por la boca mueren los peces y Oscar Wilde.

I believe firmly in mystery and manners.

The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

When someone is wearing a dress that makes her look fat, don't say 'That's a great dress.' It always comes off badly.

There are few things more American than falling back on the language of race when what we're really talking about is class or, more accurate still, manners, values and taste.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.