Courses Quote by Patricia Wentworth

“That’s one of the problems with young people today. No one has bothered to teach them the rudiments of proper telephone etiquette.”

— J.A. Jance

“Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what everyone else…

— Sarah-Kate Lynch

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Judith Martin

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

— Rita Rudner

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

Every generation is convinced there has been a deplorable breakdown of manners

— Byron Dobell

Whatever happened to courtesy? What can be so urgent that you have to look down at your phone in the middle of a dinner…

— Martin Cooper

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the…

— Judith Martin

Good manners require space and time.

— Alphonse de Lamartine