E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

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?

Are ya waiting for an invitation? Getchya self in. I ain’t gonna scare ya.

We have rules One-Ear.” The man smiled faintly at Mrs. Francis. “Ladies are not to be hacked apart with swords. It reflects badly on pirates in general and on our outfit in particular.

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you”; “It is easier to be critical than correct”- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors.

Rudeness, abruptness, gory tales of blood and thunder, and coarse language usually show up the greenhorn or counterfeit, and certainly the ill-bred. “The bravest are the tenderest; the gentlest are the daring.

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.

I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don’t.

Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.

Control thy lingo and mind thy demeanor in synonymy with the social etiquette,

Gli uomini veri impazziscono per le ragazze che sanno dire di no. Gli stupidi si accontentano delle facili.

Among the people to whom he belonged, nothing was written or talked about at that time except the Serbian war. Everything that the idle crowd usually does to kill time, it now did for the benefit of the Slavs: balls, concerts, dinners, speeches, ladies’ dresses, beer, restaurants—all bore witness to our sympathy with the Slavs.With...

When I am alone, my table manners are rather piggish, but i suppose that’s because I don’t eat at a table, I eat at my desk. Which could be considered a table, except we tend to define things by their function, and this particular surface is a desk, so perhaps piggish is unfair.

Manners come down to a single principle, talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting.

The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.

She took Sunny’s coat off, and then her own, and dropped them both on the floor. Normally, of course, one should hang up one’s coat on a hook or in a closet, but itchy hives are very irritating and tend to make one abandon such matters.

It is not grey hair that makes one respectable but character.

It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!

We need to take turns – it’s the kind thing to do.

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word “punctilious” (“attentive to formality or etiquette”) comes from the same original root as punctuation.

…when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate – with quite elaborate behaviours = for the sudden half-disappearance of the person we were just speaking to. ‘Go ahead!’ we say. ‘Don’t mind...

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

Mikhail?…Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you’re doing, and I’ll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.-You will not find it.-Why am I not surprised?

Let your heroes be known. Give praise and honor to those to whom it is rightly due. Spend more time posting stories about heroes than you do about the wrongs in the world. When we know about heroes and we see those who perform heroic acts, we too want to be heroes. There is a...

When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.

It is rudeness of the highest order to hit a family when they are down.

Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back.

Success-minded people know that first and foremost, in all we do, we must think of others first. By thinking of others, how they feel and what they need, will not cost you a thing nor will it lessen what you have to say.

Not everyone will support every mission or work, you can still enjoy their friendship. No one likes to feel that the only reason you are friends is what you can get out of them.

Social media is just that – social.

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

As a success-minded person, you should always be looking to not only do your job but do it with excellence and go the extra mile.

Every decision you ever make has its own consequences. Freedom is not the issue. You have freedom to do what you want, you just cannot do it and not pay the price for it.

Positive people on the other had are not those who deny what is going on around them for some pie-in-the-sky type of thinking. Positive people are very award of the problems, disasters and difficulties that are happening all around them. What they do not do is give into defeat.

The rules from those who are politically correct restrict what you can say to or about anything in our daily life. They tell you what to call others and what others can call you.

Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude.

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the...

The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

Dwarf mothers didn’t handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature.

If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will say everything about it except the simple and fairly obvious fact that it is wrong. Some will call it insane; that is, will accuse it of a deficiency of intelligence. This is not...

Xingu!” she scoffed. “Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that made Osric Dane so furious. I should have thought that was plain enough to everybody!

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

He then bespattered the youth with abundance of that language which passes between country gentleman who embrace opposite sides of the question; with frequent applications to him to salute that part which is generally introduced into all controversies that arise among the lower orders of the English gentry at horse-races, cock-matches, and other public places....