Quotes About Manners

Nothing more was said. It was evident that Uncle Robert, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, would say no farewells and make no compliments.

Brats," he muttered under his breath. "They take after you, my lord," Alienor said sweetly.

Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Suffering had had an effect with which she was familiar. The refusal of self-pity and despair had turned it from lead to fire, burning up the subterfuges and dishonesties below the surface of the inherited veneer of manners and thought that most men and women think are their true selves, and the veneer with them.

If you are the type who truly longs to be a Southern Belle at all times, regardless of taking twice the space available in bus, subway or elsewhere, you had best remove yourself to a large estate replete with servants.

This duel of consideration for one another that they had conducted for the last sixteen years involved shifting the truth about between them or withholding it altogether and was called good manners or affection, supposed to smooth the humdrum or prickly path of everyday married life. Its tyranny was apparent to neither.

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

He was watching her, leaning back in the chair with his arms crossed. His face was serious and kind; she saw he wasn't making fun. He spoke softly, his head bent forward with concern. "A woman should learn to take a compliment gracefully," he said.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestions: "How are you!" is a greeting, not a question.

with the new economic order, a new moral perspective was taking shape. The Enlightenment term for it was "politeness.

At Jeffrey's table, "the talk [was] always good, but never ambitious, and those listening never in disrepute.

He liked to call people "brutes" or even "bitches" (in Scots it can apply to men as well as women).

German critics like Paul de Lagarde said that the individual produced entirely by society's manners lacked depth; Nietzsche called him an emotional cripple.

In 1803, the liberal political economist Francis Jeffrey identified the middle class or "middling ranks" as the social stratum in which this progress took place. The reasonable, sober, polite, and industrious manners of the middle classes (in French, la bourgeoisie ), Jeffrey argued, form the cutting edge of civilization's moral, economic, and social improvement, which trickles down to the other ranks of society.

But I remembered that it wouldn't be polite.

Estoy harto de este matasiete de salón, con su cordón rojo y su desvergüenza camuflada tras una seca cortesía que a nadie engaña. Si me anda buscando, es hora de que me encuentre.

La palabrota que ensucia la lengua termina por ensuciar el espíritu. Quien habla como un patán, terminará por pensar como un patán y por obrar como un patán. Hay una estrecha e indisoluble relación entre la palabra, el pensamiento y la acción. No se puede pensar limpiamente, ni ejecutar con honradez, lo que se expresa en los peores términos soeces. Es la palabra lo que crea el clima del pensamiento y las condiciones de la acción".

She ate with good manners, using the knife in the French way to push things onto her fork. She

A gentleman does not openly work for pay, does he?

I try never to speak until people have finished with the weather reports.

Beloved-of-the-Gods speaks thus: Father and mother should be respected and so should elders, kindness to living beings should be made strong and the truth should be spoken. In these ways, the Dhamma should be promoted. Likewise, a teacher should be honored by his pupil and proper manners should be shown towards relations. This is an ancient rule that conduces to long life. Thus should one act.

In order to be polite, it is necessary to have something to give. Politeness is the art of doing to others the honours of the advantages we possess, whether of our minds, our riches, our rank, our standing, or any other source of enjoyment. To be polite, is to know how to offer and to accept with grace; but when a person has nothing certain of his own, he cannot give any thing.

She used to be a schoolteacher, but she has no class now.