Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

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

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and...

Network etiquette is our participation in groups. Following Netiquette rules is a contribution.

Handsome is as handsome does

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...

I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days...

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and...

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Being popular doesn’t always win spiritual change. Christ didn’t pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point—to...

How very kind of her, ‘ I said. ‘I must remember to send her a card.’I’d send her a card alright. It would be the Ace of Spades, and I’d mail it anonymously from somewhere...

Traditional values are not gone. They are good netiquette.

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he’s about to entersociety is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, nomatter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who failsto...

We are all different and we all have a different sense of humor.

All this from wearing a gown that tangles your feet?

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

It’s not about the rules – it’s about the relationships.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say “Good morning, sir” or “madam,” depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite...

Nimewapa watoto wangu kila kitu katika maisha isipokuwa umaskini. Lakini bado wamenishinda.

I remember manners, that’s when people are scared to make other persons mad.

We have gotten so use to humor being something nasty and offensive that we started to believe that was the only way to get a laugh.

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

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...

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.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices

He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.

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Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

Trustworthiness is a mark of a success-minded person. To be seen as trustworthy is a great compliment. When people trust you, they expect that you will honor their trust.

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

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...

It’s the height of bad manners to sleep with somebody less than three times.

Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle...

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...

Never talk to waiters like that,” Kit said.”Can I help it,” he said, “if I only went one year to finishing school?””It isn’t manners,” she said like a sensible schoolteacher quietly disciplining a small boy,...

The Internet is complicated. Netiquette is simple. Be nice.

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...

If you want friends you must be friendly. Always complaining and posting negative comments is not going to bring you friends. No one likes to get puked on.

Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals.True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not...

In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were simply habitual.

Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.

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

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

I always use my clients’ products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

Ukiwapa watoto wako uhuru wa shaghalabaghala au uhuru wa kila kitu watajisahau! Wape uhuru wa mahesabu.

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...