Quotes About Manners

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

Scarlett, when you are forty-five, perhaps you will know what I'm talking about and then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap emotions. But I doubt it. I think you'll always be more attracted by glister than by gold.

He wasn't a gentleman and there was no telling what men would do when they weren't gentlemen. There was no standard to judge them by.

Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.

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.

Sir, she said, you are no gentleman! An apt observation, he answered airily. And you, Miss, are no lady.

You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate," Ellen told her daughter. "You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

Sir," she said, "you are no gentleman!" "An apt observation," he answered airily. "And, you, Miss, are no lady.

Los modales le habían sido impuestos por las amables amonestaciones y la severa disciplina de su madre;

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

Don't ever interrupt me again. And next time you do, show me the proper respect.

You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.

And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

Well, then, he said, I hope you are good-tempered; I do not like any one next door who bites.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.