Quotes about Manners

The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue.

It's rude to run off a guest. It's rude to wear out your welcome.

It's rude to run off a guest. It's rude to wear out your welcome.

You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

All nations believe the gods to be governed by a king; for men, who have made the gods after their own image, are ever hasty in ascribing to these celestial beings, human manners and human institutions.

One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.

I admired her lack of compunction, the courage of her bad manners, the energy of simple rage. Throwing a bag of spaghetti had a simplicity to it, a recklessness, a careless grandeur. It got things over with. I was a long way, then, from being able to do anything like it myself.

Little children, such as Anne, must never, ever correct their elders, no matter how many blunders they make or how often they let their imaginations run away with them.

Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.