Quotes About Manners

All the blackmailers and extortionists I've ever met have impeccable manners. - Julian Isherwood

Manners won't cost you a thing," Asa said. "But they may gain you plenty.

Well, maybe he was learning something about Southern manners. She

much privilege leads to bad manners

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

If someone is nice to you but rude to the waiter, they are not a nice person.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

The bride seemed genuinely happy showing off her new husband, and her friends were too polite to ask if he was the best unemployed baboon she could find.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze.

And I have to tell you,' he continued a little worriedly, 'that the tales of its barbarous and primitive manners are myriad. We are in a savage place here – Doctor, was it? – a place of infamy and the fecund darkness of the death of gentility. . .

Neil shook hands with Marco, and then Sarah followed suit. "Just don't start with the tall jokes, okay?" Neil asked. "Let's leave that behind us." Marco grinned. "No problem," he said. "I never make jokes about a man I always look up to.

Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies.

If you want to gain any man's good opinion, take particular care how you behave the first time you are in company with him; the light you appear in at first, to one who is neither inclinable to think well nor ill of you, will strongly prejudice him either for or against you.

There is no occasion to trample upon the meanest reptile, nor to sneak to the greatest prince. Insolence and baseness are equally unmanly.

You're disgusting when you eat," Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. "It's like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

You okay, there, Mr. Rat Man?" Minho asked. "My name is Assistant Director Janson," he replied, his voice low and strained, as if it was hard work to stay calm. His eyes never left Thomas. "Learn to show respect for your elders.

Some people don't respond to civility.

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.

He wiped his nose with his sleeve. Gross me out the door.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

as skilled a dissembler as I was, I could barely be civil to him;