Quotes About Manners

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul.

He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

The behaviour of courtesy and civility is the jewellery of your thoughts and the beauty of your expression.

Two sentences story Someone shouted angrily; go to the hell I asked politely; tell me the way

Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentleman.

men can be pigs, but also the opposite. what is the opposite of a pig?

Ivan pushed his paper cup in various directions, as if it were a king under check. He said that in Hungary people were more honest. If they thought you were doing something stupid, they let you know right away. Americans were polite and remote, as if there were bubbles separating everyone. "You can't tell if someone really likes you," he said. "You can't get close. There are all these blocks." "Blocks," I echoed.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

A person who does not understand the language of politeness should only be greeted with the words with which he has treated often to the people.

A wise is never clever but only nice to the gentleman.

A wise never treats the clever to be nice ever.

The opposite of the women is not the men but a gentleman.

Perhaps smartphones at a party should be treated like coats, usually taken to a back room or otherwise stowed away until guests are ready to leave—a signal, like taking off your coat, that you're happy to be here and you're going to stay awhile.

Shame can look a lot like rude.

Wit is well-bred insolence.

All nations believe the gods to be governed by a king; for men, who have made the gods after their own image, are ever hasty in ascribing to these celestial beings, human manners and human institutions.