Quotes About Manners

If I'm receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting someone up for a casual favor out of the blue who you've never met before. I really believe in manners.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Kids are cute, but they're so rude. I was taking a shower, when my daughter came in and said, "Gosh Mom, I hope when I grow up my breasts are nice and long like yours."

Dalam berargumentasi jangan mengeluarkan ejekan mau pun sindiran tajam.

Come along, Mr. Iverson, you must be starved to death," said the dean. He saw my startled look and added dryly, "That's an observation, by the way. Not a decree.

I can be terribly vulgar in private life, especially after a nip of dry sherry.

It is supposed to be in very bad taste to discuss a person behind his back; and to discuss a dead person behind his back is most unfair, for he cannot even retaliate.

Only assholes shake hands for business, for show, good people shake hands because it's just to do so.

Ju? i inne rakiety lata? zacz??y, jeden tylko Ba?bu?a zachowa? przyzwoito?? i konwencjonalnie r?n?? no?em.

Husband-hunting. Always a rousing sport. I suppose you go there dressed to kill." "No, indeed. What good is a dead husband?" She smiled airily. "I go dressed to maim only.

I'll join you, sir. You'll need help finding your way about the estate." His lips tightened into a disapproving line. "Begging your pardon, Lady Rosalind, but I didn't have a nursemaid when I was three, so I certainly don't need one now. I'm perfectly capable of navigating an estate alone." "I'm sure you are - indeed, you demonstrated a remarkable proficiency for it last night, and in a strange house, too.

You're my guest, and hosts generally do feed their guests, you know." Her natural ebullience returning, she flashed him an impish smile. "Even when their guests have landed them in a most delicate predicament?" "Especially then. Well-fed guests make less trouble.

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies' hands — after all, one must start somewhere.

not to walk about in the house in my outdoor dress

Aprendí de Alejandro el gramático el no censurar; no zaherir a quienes se les fue un barbarismo, un solecismo o cualquier viciosa pronunciación; sino anunciar con maña aquella única palabra que convenía proferir, bajo la forma de una respuesta, de una confirmación o de una deliberación sobre el fondo mismo, no sobre la forma, o por otro medio apropiado de hábil sugerencia.

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

I already told you," said Adam. "There is no need to swear." "Sorry, it just fucking slipped out," said Zeb.

I admired her lack of compunction, the courage of her bad manners, the energy of simple rage. Throwing a bag of spaghetti had a simplicity to it, a recklessness, a careless grandeur. It got things over with. I was a long way, then, from being able to do anything like it myself.

Charis disapproves of crass words like shit. Roz has offered poop , but Charis rejected it as too babyish. Her alimentary canal products? Tony has suggested. No, that sounds too coldly intellectual, said Charis. Her Gifts to the Earth.

Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all else has fled.   On

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own.