Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted.
Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.
Manners make often fortunes.
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Yes, I am not well-behaved.
Listen, I'm a gentleman at the end of the day.
I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.
Make 2012 the year that you were nice.. because people don't like not nice people.. so be nice.. all the time!
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.
I am very respectful and always have been.
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.
A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?
[Benjamin Franklin's life was:] ... one continued insult to good manners and decency.
Me and polite have never been on close terms.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.
Sir Wiggo sounds nice.
