Ronan Farrow Quotes

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Forget love. Try good manners.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

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.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

The etiquette question has become of so much importance as to be an object of state.

Manners are really very important to me.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

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.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.