Authority Quote by Nicolas Cage

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

— Margaret Mead

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

— Rita Mae Brown

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

— Michel de Montaigne

If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'

— Bryan Fuller

“Politeness must be cultivated, for the promptings of nature are eminently selfish, and courtesy and good-breeding are only attainable by effort and discipline. But…

— Arthur Martine

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

— Judith Martin

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

— Emily Post

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

— Judith Martin

“Plus, it is basic human nature to treat polite people worse than rude people. It is easier to assert dominance over a person unlikely…

— Joseph Fink

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,

— Daniel Dennett