Quotes about Manners

The habit of saying thank you is the mark of a cultivated mind.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

As for himself, when he went to go to a party, as one was sometimes obliged to, from a wish not to give offence, he walked into the middle of the room, said 'Ha! Ha!' as loud as ever he could, considered he had done his duty, and went home.

Each of the ladies, being after the fashion of their sex, highly trained in promoting men's talk without listening to it, could think—about the education of children, about the use of fog sirens in an opera—without betraying herself. Only it struck Helen that Rachel was perhaps too still for a hostess, and that she might have done something with her hands.

Gran was just being polite. Southern people are supposed to be polite and gracious. She's trying to show me how to be the same way.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.