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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.
Emily Post
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
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.
Sydney Smith
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.
Eric Hoffer
Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.
Albert Guirard
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake sweet but not nourishing.
Nellie McClung
(A gentleman) is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Fred Allen
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.
Oliver Herford
Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .
Samuel Johnson
The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz
(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.
Emily Post
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
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.
Sydney Smith
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.
Will Cuppy
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.
Eric Hoffer
Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.
Albert Guirard
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake sweet but not nourishing.
Nellie McClung
(A gentleman) is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Fred Allen
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.
Oliver Herford
Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .
Samuel Johnson
The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz
(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 polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Bryant McGill
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
Time is no one's friend--time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.
Catherynne M. Valente
In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.
Anna Quindlen
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.
Richard M. Weaver
The natural flow of discourse must be calm and serene; if wit, whim, fun and fire are present, they will not fail to flash brightly along its surface; but they can never constitute the main body of the stream itself.
Arthur Martine
All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.
Edward O. Wilson
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