manners and behavior Quotes

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

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

Good manners require space and time.

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit.

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

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.

Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people!

The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

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.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as 'a man,' we consider him not merely with regard to his fellow-men, but in relation to himself,--to life--to time--to eternity.

You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.

What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.