Quotes about Manners

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

it is easier to behave nicely when you have your good clothes on.

Now, don't be looking I-told-you-so, Matthew. That's bad enough in a woman, but it isn't to be endured in a man.

Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

If you brought up Joyce twice, you would not be invited back.

Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

A child should always say what's trueAnd speak when he is spoken to,And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.

The Mad Hatter: Would you like some wine? Alice: Yes... The Mad Hatter: We haven't any and you're too young.

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.