Quotes about manners

Respect for ourselves guides our morals respect for others guides our manners

A boy has other people do the talking for him a man speaks his mind.

What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.

Gentlemen are a dying breed.Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.

Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.

The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!

Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.

We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.

Roaring is never a voice for indoors. Roaring sounds better when done outdoors!

We need to take turns - it's the kind thing to do.

We all need good manners, like our friends from the zoo!

That's when I remember if you have a choice, always ask friends to leave in a very nice voice.

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.

Be a person that others will look for your posts daily because they know you will encourage them. Be the positive one and help others to have a great day and you will find that not only they like you but you will like you too.

Words that should cross your lips with ease: thank you, love you, sorry, please.

I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was ‘excuse me’.

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

Wasting talent is a sin. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. It’s just not courteous to not use or wear something that somebody’s given you as a well-meaning gift. It goes against Southern ways, not that God is Southern by any stretch of the imagination, but I do think He expects us to be an example for the rest of the country, as far as manners go.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?""I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

I'm making a listI'm making a list of things I must sayFor politeness,And goodness and kindness and gentlenessSweetness and rightness:HelloPardon meHow are you?Excuse meBless youMay I?Thank youGoodbyeIf you know some that I've forgot,Please stick them in you eye!

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

A gentleman holds my hand.A man pulls my hair.A soulmate will do both.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

I strive everyday to be a great parent so my kids can be better people when they move out into the world on their own.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.

Manners come down to a single principle, talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting.

The [women's] march was pointless, classless, and brainless, but not harmless. One common theme was anger at certain crass comments Trump made in the past. To combat this, the march’s leaders and their lemmings decided to be crude, lewd, and even more crass in the present. It’s much like trying to correct your child’s cursing by cursing him out.

Sometimes when a father has an ugly, loutish son, the love he bears him so blindfolds his eyes that he does not see his defects, or, rather, takes them for gifts and charms of mind and body, and talks of them to his friends as wit and grace. I, however—for though I pass for the father, I am but the stepfather to "Don Quixote"—have no desire to go with the current of custom, or to implore thee, dearest reader, almost with tears in my eyes, as others do, to pardon or excuse the defects thou wilt p

While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice our local destination. But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation, while it is practising iniquity and extr

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!

Men can go to hell! I’ll meet them there.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention.""Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?

I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners."Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction.

More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.

Network etiquette is our participation in groups. Following Netiquette rules is a contribution. NetworkEtiquette.net

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you"; "It is easier to be critical than correct"- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

Men make laws women make manners.

They asked Lucman the fabulist From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.

What once were vices are now manners.

Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.

Suit your manner to the man.

If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake sweet but not nourishing.

(A gentleman) is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity Simplicity Sympathy and Serenity.

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .

The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.