Quotes About Manners

The finger lick is just a really bad habit - I do it all the time. My wife Ashley is going to kill me if I do it at dinner one more time. I look like an animal about to dig in.

While interrupting is not always wrong, it should never become a habit.

Niégate a interrumpir. Investigaciones recientes indican que el individuo promedio solo escucha diecisiete segundos antes de interrumpir e intercalar sus propias ideas.

We must be willing to give advice but only when it is requested and never in a condescending manner.

If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners.

To speak well is part of living well.

M. Richard bowed ... to nobody; bent his back ... before nobody; and walked backward ... before nobody ... And, a few steps behind him, M. Moncharmin did the same thing

D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.

Youre tale anoyeth al this compaignye. Swich talkyng is nat worth a boterflye

Truly she was of elegant deportment, and very pleasing and amiable in bearing. She took pains to counterfeit the manners of the court and to be dignified in behavior and to be held worthy of reverence.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned? HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you [Colonel Pickering], because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

Tulajdonképpen nem abban van a különbség, hogy az ember hogy viselkedik, hanem hogy az emberrel hogyan viselkednek. Én Higgins professzor úr számára mindig csak egy virágoslány maradok, mert Å' mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy virágoslánnyal. De maga elÅ'tt úrinÅ' lehetek, mert maga mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy úrinÅ'vel.

Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.

If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead

In some company it's perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.

He thought it probable that Miss Brooke liked him, and manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful.

It is offensive to tell a lady when she is expressing her amazement at your skill, that she is altogether mistaken and rather foolish in her amazement.