Quotes about Manners

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.

when you start displaying courtesy, politeness, and consideration, people start displaying them right back.

Respect is not a feeling. It is how we treat another person.

You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.

When they asked him to stay for a while longer, he declined.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone at the table with you.

Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you [Colonel Pickering], because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.