Manners Quotes

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

“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.”

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

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

“There is nothing so cheap as politeness.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“A gentleman is a man who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”

“Courtesy is a cost-free asset.”

“A gentleman is someone who never insults anyone unintentionally.”

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

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

“Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.”

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

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

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