Quotes About Manners

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

Mr. Evans beamed. "Could I get you a drink?" he said. The words were ordinary; the phrase was one that Maureen had heard and often welcomed at endless dozens of parties. But Mr. Evans managed to invest it with such a delightful Edwardian gallantry that you almost thought he had said, "May I bring an ice to you in the conservatory?

Claude understands that he ought to resent them, but he admires their competence and manners, the clean efficiency with which they move. They always seem to be going somewhere and never doubt that it is the right place to be going. Something his own country has lacked.

the princeps would often arrive late and leave early, letting his guests start and finish without him.

People naturally prefer you to lie to them rather than refuse them your help," he writes.

For him, politeness was a surgical mask, something he slipped on before he took out his scalpel.

It would upset me to have to be discourteous to you, so I would be obliged if you did not communicate with me again except, of course, in the most urgent circumstances. I wish you a good evening.' It

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

It's easy to make rude comments simply for the sake of being rude, but I'd much rather go a more psychological route.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.

Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.

My parents find me hilarious. They don't pull me up for anything because I'm a good daughter. I stay at home, don't party too much, people don't talk about my affairs or that I am unprofessional. In fact, people tell my parents that I'm so well-brought up. Yes, I tend to shoot my mouth off, but they don't pull me up for that.

I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

As long as those adjectives used to describe me - charming, affable, punctual - don't mean that I'm dull, then that's fine. And I am polite - I was brought up to be that way.

Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.

We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.