Quotes about Manners

In Chile it is bad manners to acknowledge that you're overly satisfied, because that can irritate the less fortunate, which is why for us the correct answer to the question "How are you?" is "So-so." That is an opening for sympathizing with the other speaker's situation.

The national sport is to talk about the person who just left the room. In this, too, we are different from our idols, the English, whose principles forbid them from making personal remarks.

A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.

The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.

Nothing, however, can be successfully substituted for pleasing conduct.

Take time to be Courteous. Courtesy lightens the burdens of toil. Courtesy demands respect. Courtesy is a little brother to Opportunity and follows her around through the hours of the busy day. Courtesy always leads a man higher up.

You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

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.