Quotes About Manners

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety.

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.

I was learning that in these extremely civilized circles, conflict is dealt with in a very ornate and hypocritical manner.

I can be a perfect gentleman. If that's what you want.

Virtues enhance the beauty of the form; good manners enhance the glory of the family; perfection enhances the value of education and enjoyment enhances the pleasures of wealth.

No woman who wants something is a lady. If she is, she doesn't get it.

Give good hearing to those, that give the first information in business; and rather direct them in the beginning, than interrupt them in the continuance of their speeches; for he that is put out of his own order, will go forward and backward, and be more tedious, while he waits upon his memory, than he could have been, if he had gone on in his own course. But sometimes it is seen, that the moderator is more troublesome, than the actor.

As the slap-dash sentences of a rushing critic express the hasty impatience of modern manners; so the deliberate emphasis, the slow acumen, the steady argument, the impressive narration bring before us what is now a tradition, the picture of the correct eighteenth-century gentleman, who never failed in a measured politeness, partly because it was due in propriety towards others, and partly because from his own dignity it was due most obviously to himself.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

In real life, I'm the kind of person that if I use Siri, I thank her afterwards.

Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.

If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

My philosophy is, if I couldn't say it in front of my grandmother, I probably shouldn't say it.

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

I always show great respect for everyone, including Manchester United.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

No one wants a lecture when you're getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn't that grounds for some discipline?

I'd rather be a good guest in someone's home than tell them I don't like their food or make fun of them.

I always feel guilty later if I behave rudely with anyone.

I don't know how people chew gum all day long.