Judith Martin Quotes

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

There's no excuse for rudeness.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

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

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

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

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 never let my politics supersede my manners.

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

If my girls are rude, it's over. There is no place in the world for it.

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

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

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.

If you're not a nice person, don't call.

I would never disrespect anyone.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

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

I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.