Jeremy Clarkson Quotes

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

Don't spit in the soup. We've all got to eat.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

Good manners require space and time.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.

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.