Quotes About Manners

Always remember how to behave, how to speak to people, how to respect the world around you

We count so much on politeness, those of us who are hiding things. We count on people not staring too long, or asking too many questions.

My mother always told me that if you're embarrassed by a kindness and don't know what to say, keep it simple. "Thank you.

While Birdie was a guest in their home, the Crosses would find her irresistibly charming, impeccably well mannered, and delightfully funny. But when they were out of earshot once again, Birdie would tell Kate in unsparing detail what she really thought. Birdie Burke took merciless measure.

Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy.

I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

I knew something was wrong when you started being so polite.

The exemption from rudeness startled him. Reading it again, however, he realized that it didn't compel him to be rude; it simply allowed him the option

tunic back on. "Goodbye, sir," he said. "Thank you for my

Miles. I have to talk to you." "Just a minute." The minute became two or three or four, as he leaned against the doorframe and scuffed his boot on the patterned carpet. He knocked again. "C'mon, Simon, let me in." "Don't be so impatient, Miles," his aunt's voice admonished him firmly. "It's a bit rude." He

Cazaril trusted he appeared scholarly enough to fool the young ladies

Your language, dear, Victoria reproved gently. A lady never curses in public. There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. Keiley paused. With a two-by-four? she asked. Victoria's lips pursed a smile tugged at her lips. Only as a last resort, she murmured humorously. And never in public.

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

Jessica: "You great drunken jackass!" Dain: "I did not give you leave to use my Christian name.

When affection fell on its ass, politeness could step up.

Madame will forgive me for not perceiving her busyness. It is a sign of the highest breeding to be able to be busy whilst appearing idle to the uninformed observer.

But Jack is not offended; he has a sense of his place in the world, and a sensible man expects snooty people to be snooty

A lady should be allowed to choose her comp'ny, an' should be treated like a lady until she shows she prefers different.

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how. I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women

Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions,' returned Jo sharply. Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that; and to be bidden to 'run away, dear' is still more trying to us.

Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, Darling, love me! I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.

It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief.

It does seem pleasant to be quiet, and not have company manners on all the time. Home is a nice place, though it isn't splendid.