Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Women take great care of themselves in France. It’s a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that’s why I seem so refined.
It’s one of these things that I’ve been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that’s not at all class specific. It’s not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It’s always been something that I’ve noticed.
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there’s no kind of agreed form of manners.
Song Joong-ki is known for his sincerity and manners. He is younger than me, but I thought I learned many things from him.
I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren’t aware of manners and other ways of life and ‘common decency.’
The show is like an Edwardian play – emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that’s terrific for actors to play in.
The joy of my heart is to ‘study men, their manners, and their ways,’ and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
Don’t keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don’t talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.
The cliche of call-centre work is that it’s mainly older people who will stay on the line to talk to you. Whether through loneliness or good manners, they tend to allow you to finish your sentences, hear you out.
There are few things more American than falling back on the language of race when what we’re really talking about is class or, more accurate still, manners, values and taste.
Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that’s my persona.
What used to be called ‘good manners’ is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she’s likely to call security.
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times.
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before – when in fact it’s quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Manners are really very important to me.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I’m ‘Ms. Manners.’ That’s not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
