Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

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

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split.

My parents always told me to be respectful to anyone you meet and to live your life that way.

People in England have a lot of respect. It is relaxed here.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Forget love. Try good manners.

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

Good manners are a part of good morals.