Quotes About Manners

She strove in vain against the echoing walls of their civility.

You could call your cousin a shit if you liked, but not an eunuch. Rotten style!

You are not to say 'stink,' " interrupted Helen; "at least, you may say it, but you must pretend you are being funny while you say it.

Mr. Beebe smiled as Miss Alan plunged into an anecdote which he knew she would be unable to finish in the presence of a gentleman.

True socialism is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.

She had learnt the lingo, but only to speak to her servants, so she knew none of the politer forms and of the verbs only the imperative mood.

Aziz, may I have a drink?" "Certainly not!" He flew to get one.

The betrayal I now felt was greater because it had been perpetrated with the greatest of charm and courtesy.

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

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

Boys wandered about in a condition of unnatural civility

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well betrayed, as by his manners.

He llegado al límite de mi resistencia física. Descanso apoyando ambas rodillas en el suelo y doblando la pierna izquierda hacia atrás y la pierna derecha hacia delante. Al verme en esta postura, una señora me da una moneda de pesetas veinticinco, que ingiero de inmediato para no parecer descortés.

As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined, even in your day, to the ignorant and bestial; and in these days, when education and good manners are not the monopoly of a few, but universal, such atrocities are scarcely ever heard of.

Happiness is the end at which they aim, not as the excitement of a moment, but as the prevailing condition of the entire existence; and regard for the happiness of each other is evinced by the exquisite amenity of their manners.

I soon discovered that all civility is but the mask of design.

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.

Please don't throw your cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light.

Don't needle the seamstress.

The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas — that's what my grandma taught me.

Do not speak ill of the dead.

Though I be rude in speech.

Man 1: Where are you from? Man 2: From a place where we do not end sentences with prepositions. Man 1: Okay, where are you from, jackass?