Manners Quotes

“Bright flashes of memory sparked through Kaz’s mind. A cup of hot chocolate in his mittened hands, Jordie warning him to let it cool before he took a sip. Ink drying on the page as he’d signed the deed to the Crow Club. The first time he’d seen Inej at the Menagerie, in purple silk, her eyes lined with kohl. The bone-handled knife he’d given her. The sobs that had come from behind the door of her room at the Slat the night she’d made her first kill. The sobs he’d ignored. Kaz remembered her perched on the sill of his attic window, sometime during that first year after he’d brought her into the Dregs. She’d been feeding the crows that congregated on the roof.

“You shouldn’t make friends with crows,” he’d told her.

“Why not?” she asked.

He’d looked up from his desk to answer, but whatever he’d been about to say had vanished on his tongue.

The sun was out for once, and Inej had turned her face to it. Her eyes were shut, her oil-black lashes fanned over her cheeks. The harbor wind had lifted her dark hair, and for a moment Kaz was a boy again, sure that there was magic in this world.

“Why not?” she’d repeated, eyes still closed.

He said the first thing that popped into his head. “They don’t have any manners.”

“Neither do you, Kaz.” She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Because people who can’t be bothered with manners pretend to be amused by them.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“So many of the men who came to the West were southerners—
men looking for work and a new life after the Civil War—that chivalrousness and strict codes of honor were soon thought of as
western traits. There were very few women in Wyoming during territorial days, so when they did arrive (some as mail-order
brides from places like Philadelphia) there was a standoffishness between the sexes and a formality that persists now. Ranchers still
tip their hats and say, "Howdy, ma'am" instead of shaking hands with me.
Even young cowboys are often evasive with women. It's not that they're Jekyll and Hyde creatures—gentle with animals and
rough on women—but rather, that they don't know how to bring their tenderness into the house and lack the vocabulary to express
the complexity of what they feel.”
― Gretel Ehrlich

“WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN: A child should always say what's true and speak when he is spoken to, and behave mannerly at table; at least as far as he is able.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Eye contact is one good skill to adopt when speaking in public. However, beware of the culture of people you are speaking to before you contact them with your eyes. Take note of their age range. In some cultures, looking into the face of an elderly person when talking is considered as disrespect. Some cultures don't have problem with it at all.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“It was a very powerful politeness.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Witch Week

“One of the protocols of being in the company of a member of the Royal Family is that if they are standing, you have to stand - you can't sit down until they do. They seem to do an awful lot of standing...”
― Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

“Seduction like attraction, is spoken about in a more positive manner in our generation. Forgetting the fact that these attributes involve bending the will of another person in order to make our ends meet our means.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“A proper table setting provides no place for a cell phone.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“I'll show them that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday. They'll sit up and take notice and keep their big mouths shut when I make them see they ought to attend to their own manners instead of mine.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

“Hearts , like doors, will ope with ease
To very, very little keys,
And don't forget that two of these
Are “I thank you” and “If you please.”
― Anonymous

“Madness is no excuse for bad manners or wasted tea.”
― Cheryl Low, Vanity in Dust

“Sometimes politeness can get in the way of simplicity.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, "Darling, it's not only about sex"

“What the devil are you doing here?” continued the earl, his customary good manners quite banished by the shock of seeing this girl whose treachery had not prevented her from haunting his dreams, sleeping and waking, ever since she had gone.”
― Eva Ibbotson, A Countess Below Stairs

“When your servant brings your food to you, if you do not ask him to join you, then at least ask him to take one or two handfuls, for he has suffered from its heat (while cooking it) and has taken pains to cook it nicely”
― Prophet Mohammad

“Our privacy can serve as a form of protection during times of crisis and can offer a polite boundary of respect and good manners during times of tranquility.”
― Christopher Manske, The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence

“Pride is cyanide.”
― Constance Friday

“Less savage, more Cervantes.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“A book at the table, just as in all places, is never rude.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“People only call past 9:00 p.m. when there’s an emergency.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“An empty gesture is still a gesture.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Higher stage [regarding moral reasoning] parents do not use love withdrawal as a parenting technique and prefer discussion-based parenting (e.g., induction). Higher stage parents are less likely to endorse “conventional” values (e.g., obedience, manners, respect for rules and law) and are more likely to endorse values that promote autonomy and commitment to and respect for others.”
― Christopher Peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“I don't think it's hard to treat someone with courtesy even if you don't respect them.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Being busy is not an excuse for being rude. Circumstances don't change you, it just reflects your inner self.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“There is so much difference between thank you and thank you so much.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Be courteous to see your mistakes, courageous to accept them, and clever enough to correct them.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“In life if you don't listen and learn the teachings from the wise or elderly people. Life will teach you a lesson. You will learn in a hard way that some of the lessons, life will be teaching you. You will learn them through your death.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The Goblin was too well bred to wink; besides, being a stone goblin, it was out of the question.”
― Saki

“Suits and boots are not sentience, Manners and etiquettes are not culture. Intellect and technology are not progress, Faith and tradition are not character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“. . .We have from the start been singing the virtues of necessity -- our bodily neediness -- can not only be humanized; meeting it knowingly and deliberately can also be humanizing. For those who understand both the meaning of eating and their own hungry soul, necessity becomes the mother of the specifically human virtues: freedom, sympathy, moderation, beautification, taste, liberality, tact, grace, wit, gratitude, and finally, reverence.
The perfections of our nature are multiple. Accordingly, one should not expect that a single form of humanized eating will embody and nourish them all. Indeed, we have in this book visited a variety of dining forms that manifest in different ways the elevated faces of our humanity: feeding the stranger at our hearth; the well-mannered family supper; the convivial and witty dinner party; the inspiriting feast of the genius Babette; the wisdom-seeking symposium of Plato; the reverent ritual meal. Some forms of dining accentuate the just, others the noble, still others the playful, the artistic, the philosophic, or the pious. Yet each one reveals a common dignified humanity, differently accented and highlighted. Each displays what it means to be the truly upright and thoughtful animal.”
― Leon R. Kass, The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature