Words matter. These are the best Good Manners Quotes from famous people such as Margaret Walker, Isaac Hanson, Bill Nighy, Emily Post, Bryant H. McGill, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.
Don’t misunderstand good manners for passivity.
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
You can’t be truly rude until you understand good manners.
It doesn’t change the way I am, but I do totally understand how you’re looked at as a footballer, especially by children. I don’t claim I can shape their lives, but there’s no harm in having good manners and being seen to play the game properly.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.
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.
I like good manners, old-fashioned courting, I like being wooed.
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
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.
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.
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Good manners don’t cost nothing.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
You can get through life with bad manners, but it’s easier with good manners.
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
It doesn’t matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Let’s not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral – it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.
It’s not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It’s an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a part of good manners.
I think sometimes people project things on you, but I’m trying to handle everything that’s happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can’t necessarily win all the time.
Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Let’s face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it’s like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.
