Quotes About Manners

remember that even if you intend to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.

It was only then that he met Villefort's dull gaze, that look peculiar to men of the law who do not want anyone to read their thoughts, and so make their eyes into unpolished glass. The look reminded him that he was standing before Justice, a figure of grim aspect and manners.

but he found him as he had seen him six weeks earlier, that is to say calm, firm and full of the distant good manners that make up the most impenetrable of barriers separating a well-bred man from one of the people.

lawyers always give you very bad dinners. You would think they felt some remorse;

I know that the world is a salon which we ought to leave politely and honestly; that is, after saluting and paying our gambling debts.

you compensate for your mistakes in so gentlemanly a way, that one almost feels obliged to you for having committed them.

lawyers always give you very bad dinners.

There are people who laugh at the horse who would not dare to laugh at the master.

Among worldly people manner is contagious.

The dominions of kings are limited either by mountains or rivers, or a change of manners, or an alteration of language

Je sais que le monde est un salon dont il faut sortir poliment et honnêtement, c'est-à-dire en saluant et en payant ses dettes de jeu.

If I have been your friend, Morcerf, your present manner of speaking would almost lead me to forget that I ever bore that title.

For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.