“ Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and… Stephen King
“ Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive . Samuel Johnson
“ The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to entersociety is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, nomatter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who failsto… Ilona Andrews
“ 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… J. K. Galbraith
“ 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. Mrs. Patrick Campbell
“ Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough. James Russell Lowell
“ Woah,' I said, blocking the doorway. 'You can't come in here. This is the girls' room.' Even as it came out of my mouth, I knew it sounded dumb. Dumb, I thought and maybe even .You...are a boy, aren't… Adam Rex
“ I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action. Tennessee Williams
“ 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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life. Henning Mankell
“ Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead, I said solemnly, and frosting of white. Jim Butcher
“ The crime rates would go right down, I think, if Americans stopped saying: 'Have a nice day,' to one another. At least it would stop me from contemplating violence; when people in shops & so on order… Susannah Clapp
“ Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to… Diane Setterfield
“ Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly. Israelmore Ayivor
“ When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird. Rosemary Clement-Moore
