Honore de Balzac Quotes

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

I like things that are civilized.

Manners are the ornament of action.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

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.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

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.