Quotes About Manners

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Good manners require space and time.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn't have cash on him.

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical.

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

My dear girl, the Yankees aren't fiends. They haven't horns and hoofs, as you seem to think. They are pretty much like Southeners - except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. [Rhett Butler]

I think we agreed on the occasion of our first meeting that you were no lady at all.

Luke's dad harrumphed, and paused in the midst of shoveling forkfuls of boiled potatoes into his mouth.

You were the one who wanted me to come here with you, so you'd better have the bloody manners to talk to me. If you wanted to flirt with someone then why did you invite me? Sorry, Lucy; you're right; forgive me, Lucy. He sounded humble but he certainly did not look it. And you can knock of that naughty little boy smile, I continued.