Quotes about Manners

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

Being Set at meat Scratch not, neither Spit, Cough, or blow your Nose except there's a Necessity for it.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

A kindly courtesy does at least save one's feelings, even if it is not professing to stand for a welcome.

But there are some infelicities. Such as 'like' for 'as,' and the addition of an 'at' where it isn't needed. I heard an educated gentleman say, 'Like the flag-officer did.' His cook or his butler would have said, 'Like the flag-officer done.' You hear gentlemen say, 'Where have you been at?

Rocky Mountain etiquette required of a spectator was, that he should help the gentleman bury his game—otherwise his churlishness would surely be remembered against him the first time he killed a man himself and needed a neighborly turn in interring him.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.

Karl Bonhoeffer taught his children to speak only when they had something to say. He did not tolerate sloppiness of expression any more than he tolerated self-pity or selfishness or boastful pride. His children loved and respected him in a way that made them eager to gain his approval; he hardly had to say anything to communicate his feelings on a subject. Often a cocked eyebrow was all it took.

The suppression of the Slave Trade and the reformation of manners.