Letitia Baldrige Quotes

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

If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

I don't walk into a dinner party and say, 'You're an idiot; give me my coat.'

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Discipline socialized children. They became tolerable to those who didn’t already love them.

I've said nice things about the people I was with before, but that's what you do.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

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

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way.

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

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.

You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys.

It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

I'm never going to get in a fight in public again.