Manners Quotes

Psychology of small things rules.

~ Stefan Fatsis

They are coming to teach us good manners! I replied in English. But they won't succeed, because we are gods.

~ Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Making your own Netiquette is advanced internet use, but it's not that hard. It's all good. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

Use Discretion: It is proper netiquette to use discretion, best behavior, in all online activity. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

It is proper netiquette to refrain from using all capital letters in internet correspondence. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

The internet is great because of Netiquette we create. Participate and reciprocate. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

Effective internet communication is contact that is acted upon in a good manner, Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

The Internet is complicated. Netiquette is simple. Be nice. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

~ Edward O. Wilson

The natural flow of discourse must be calm and serene; if wit, whim, fun and fire are present, they will not fail to flash brightly along its surface; but they can never constitute the main body of the stream itself.

~ Arthur Martine

I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners.Manners! he said. Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction.

~ Mark Twain

Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention.Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?

~ Pseudonymous Bosch

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.

~ Brené Brown

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

~ Oscar Wilde

More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.

~ Mustafa Sultan

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

~ Tina Brown

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

~ Bryant Mcgill

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

~ English Proverb

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

~ Oliver Herford

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .

~ Samuel Johnson

The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

~ Fran Lebowitz

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

~ Sydney Smith

If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

~ J. K. Galbraith

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

~ James Russell Lowell

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

~ Samuel Johnson

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

~ Mrs. Patrick Campbell

There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

~ Goethe

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

~ Mark Twain

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

~ Will Cuppy

I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.

~ Tennessee Williams

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

~ Eric Hoffer

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

~ Albert Guirard

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

~ Oscar Wilde