Manners Quotes

“There are speech manners, in the same way that there are table manners.”

“A gentleman is a man who is never unintentionally rude.”

“Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.”

“There is no excuse for bad manners, except final convulsions.”

“There is nothing so cheap as politeness.”

“If you ain't got no couth, you ain't got no couth.”

“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.”

“Courtesy is a cost-free asset.”

“Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.”

“Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.”

“I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm a gentleman.”

“A gentleman is a man who never gives offense unintentionally.”

“A gentleman is a man who is never unintentionally rude.”

“A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.”

“A boor is a man of such rough and uncouth manners as to be offensive to his associates.”

“To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about them.”

“Good-breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.”

“To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.”

“A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.”

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”