406 Quotes About Manners

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to entersociety is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, nomatter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who failsto treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy."The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction."I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failedin this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove my undoing.

I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.

A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.

He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.