Saint Augustine Quotes

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

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

Above all gentlemen, not too much zeal.

We have no blasphemy laws these days but with that freedom comes the responsibility which should always attend the exercise of free speech: truth, courtesy and an awareness of impact. It is the last of these which is so neglected by so much modern comedy.

I don't wish to embarrass anyone.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

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

Civility is not simply about manners.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

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

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Civility does not mean surrender.

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

We don't like offending anyone.

Listen, even if you go wild, I like class. Everybody in show business never should forget that there is a line, and that you should have class.

Please don't stand up on my account.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

I don't aim to offend.