Quotes about Manners

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

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.

Manners is treating people with respect.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? the potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? the drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?

Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.

Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.