Manners Quotes

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.

Kenneth W. Estes

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.

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

Livy

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

Solomon ibn Gabirol

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

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

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Honoré de Balzac

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

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.

J. K. Galbraith

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

Jean de La Bruyère

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

James Russell Lowell

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

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

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

Goethe

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Tennessee Williams

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.

William Lyon Phelps

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

English Proverb

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Livy

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

Solomon ibn Gabirol

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

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

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Honoré de Balzac

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

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.

J. K. Galbraith

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

Jean de La Bruyère

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

James Russell Lowell

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

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

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

Goethe

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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.

Tennessee Williams

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.

William Lyon Phelps

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

English Proverb

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

What once were vices are now manners.

Seneca

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.

Terence

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

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