James Thomas Fields Quotes

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

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

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

I pride myself on being the nicest person in the room. My grandmother always told me, 'Manners will take you where money won't.' When I walk into a room, I say "hello" to everyone I don't care who the person is or what they do, it's simply being respectful.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace, at the dinner table, and walking down the street--we are confronted with choices on how to treat people nearly every waking moment. Over time these choices define who we are and whether we have a lot of friends and allies or none.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

Civility cost nothing.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.

Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

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.

If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.'

Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.