Good manners are never passé.

Good manners don't cost nothing.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

I like good manners, old-fashioned courting, I like being wooed.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

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.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

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

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

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

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.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

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.

Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'

One of the few things I like about Bill Clinton is that he has very good manners. If his momma were still alive, I would congratulate her.

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.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

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.

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.

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.

It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're thoughtful of other people and that they learn the consequences of their actions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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