“It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.” ― Georgette Heyer
“A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.” ― Shannon L. Alder
“No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.”
― Bryant McGill
“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.” ― Emily Post
“Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.” ― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
“Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.”
― Elsie De Wolfe
“Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.” ― Karen Joy Fowler
“A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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 madness.” Nicole Krauss, Great House
“The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.” ― Fannie Flagg, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
“Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.” ― Amy Vanderbilt
“Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.” ― Judith Martin
“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.” ― Judith Martin, Common Courtesy In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson
“Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.”― Ellen Goodman
“Good manners are not merely snobbish ornaments, as Mrs. Lippett's regime appeared to believe. They mean self-discipline and thought for others, and my children have got to learn them.” ― Jean Webster, Dear Enemy
“E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.”
― Jeff Bezos
“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.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
“Do not descend, but rise above so ill-mannered a person.” ― Mary Lydon Simonsen, The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy
“Etiquette is the fine tunning of education” ― Nadine Daher
“Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.” ― Shannon L. Alder