Quotes about Manners

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.

Most families would be healthier and happier if their members treated one another with the respect they would give to a perfect stranger. C. S. Lewis's discussion of storage, familial love, is endlessly instructive on this point and is required reading for all who intend to have a decent family life. He notes that he has been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parent.

He would get up in the midst of the crowded shop, interrupting the conversation, and start outside to relieve himself. "All who can't swim, mount the highest bench," he would cry out, "for the great he-elephant will now make water!

Learn us all the refinement and education that there's a better use for the mouth than running private opinions through it.

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Don't you know that?

Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

It isn't etiquette to cut anyone you've been introduced to. Remove the joint!

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

We must live in charity with all men, but familiarity with them is not desirable. It sometimes happens that someone personally unknown to us enjoys a high reputation, but that when we meet him, we are not impressed. Similarly, we sometimes imagine that our company is pleasing, when in reality we offend others by our ill behaviour.