Quotes about Manners
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Tana French
when you start displaying courtesy, politeness, and consideration, people start displaying them right back.
— John Wooden
Respect is not a feeling. It is how we treat another person.
— Peter Scazzero
You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.
— Jeremiah 16:8
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
— Mark Twain
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.
— Luke 14:10
When they asked him to stay for a while longer, he declined.
— Acts 18:20
Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land
— Genesis 23:12
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
— Samuel Johnson
Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
— Job 11:3
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
— Jacques Maritain