Fiorello H. La Guardia Quotes

Gentlemen don't do that.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.

There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country? The answer is simple. We no longer have manners to speak of.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

I'm a gentleman.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.