Best Manners Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy”

“Straight-A students without good manners or etiquette are like a sharp knife without a handle, dangerous and useless.”

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

“Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.”

“To call a people ‘barbaric’ is, in one sense, to describe the state of their soul, condemning their mentality or philosophy as godless. It may have nothing at all to do with superficial material conditions. A rich man can be a barbarian as easily as anyone else.”

“Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy”

“Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.”

“HIGGINS [*snatching a chocolate cream from the piano, his eyes suddenly beginning to twinkle with mischief*] Have some chocolates, Eliza.”

“A gentleman holds my hand.”

“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.”

“Wasting talent is a sin. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. It’s just not courteous to not use or wear something that somebody’s given you as a well-meaning gift. It goes against Southern ways, not that God is Southern by any stretch of the imagination, but I do think He expects us to be an example for the rest of the country, as far as manners go.”

“إنّ الفلسفةَ - كما كنتُ دومًا أفهمُها و أعيشُها - هي الحياةُ طوعًا في الجليد و فوق الجبال الشاهقة ؛ البحثُ عن كلِّ ما هو غريبٌ و إشكاليٌّ في الوجود ، و عن كلِّ ما ظلّ إلى حدّ الآن منبوذًا مِن قِبَل الأخلاق”

“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 was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.”

“I'm making a list”