Quotes About Manners

Did you just say you Think Mansfield Park is boring? Get out of my house.

There was no law against being an asshole.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all," was how I was raised, and how I lived for most of my life.

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

After a minute, Gat leaned back and let me go first. "Not because you're a girl but because I'm a good person," he told me.

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

Rudeness affected Margaret like a bitter taste in the mouth. It poisoned life. At times it is necessary, but woe to those who employ it without due need.

If high ideals make a young man rude, the sooner he gets rid of them the better

Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism — that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.

I think he is nice and tiresome. I differ from him on almost every point of any importance, and so, I expect - I may say I hope - you will differ. But his is a type one disagrees with rather than deplores. When he first came here he not unnaturally put people's backs up. He has no tact and no manners - I don't mean by that that he has bad manners - and he will not keep his opinions to himself