“... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.” — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Most Beautiful Line Is... 'But I Love You,' The Most Painful Line Is 'I Love You But,,,' See The Difference? — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places,… — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
There's a lot of time when skaters think they know everything because they've seen videos of you, and seen you on TV… — Mike Vallely Copy Share Image
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
There are few things more American than falling back on the language of race when what we're really talking about is class… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners. In twenty years, they’d have country houses and children with pretentious literary names and tennis… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire;… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“You’re not mending a rip in your father’s trousers. People are paying good money—” “I know how to sew,” I blurt. “Maybe… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“She supposed the young colored men of Link's generation couldn't have manners like Mr. Powther's, though she didn't know why. Wars and… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Christ's version of kindness: I know you are hurt. I contributed to that. Maybe, I should have said more. Done more. Listened.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife. — Nicolas Bentley Copy Share Image
Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We Can Be Like Mc Donalds and Burger King; I'll Have It My Way, And You'll Be Lovin' It. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying… — Mommy Moo Moo Copy Share Image
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Effective internet communication is contact that is acted upon in a good manner.” — David Chiles Copy Share Image
I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of… — Michelle Sagara Copy Share Image
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want… — Billy Carter Copy Share Image
Nothing will be heavier on the Day of Resurrection in the scale of a believer than good manners. Allah hates one who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and… — Robert Treat Paine Copy Share Image
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
