Top Manners Quotes

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 wel...

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

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.

When a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate -...

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 chitch...

I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of f...

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 youGoodbye...

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

Some night soon, I'll sneak back in here and we can eat chocolates until we vomit.We're such refined, genteel ladies.Please, Lysandra said, waving a manicured hand, you and I are nothing but wild beas...

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.