Top 1200 Miss Manners Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Unfortunately, chivalry seems to be on the decline, but let's hope that manners can remain important. I, for one, will certainly be an evangelist with it.

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

When I see ya baby girl, I miss feelin on ya. I miss everything that's real about ya and that's everything about ya, that's just how I feel about ya

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

I'm very good at compartmentalising my life. I did motor-racing for a while, stopped, didn't miss it. I did power-boat racing for a while, stopped, didn't miss it. I had such a good run at the BBC. I had a hell of a CV with arguably the greatest broadcasting organisation in the world. But I've never missed it since.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

If you love your dad, it’s tough when he dies. If you don’t like your dad, it’s tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn’t get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.” “Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “There. Happy now? That’s what Miss Tick thinks. But it’s happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back.” “Why?” “There’s no one to stop them.” There was silence for a moment. “There’s me,” said Tiffany.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you.

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'

One of the worst things [Donald Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman "Miss Piggy." Then he called her "Miss Housekeeping," because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

We moved around a lot at first as a kid, and then I was on the road at 17, and new in town by the time I got to LA, and then famous again with that whirlwind. I did really want substance in my life, and when I stopped with the road for my children, it was really because I didn't want to miss out. It wasn't just selflessness. I didn't want to miss out on that.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.

Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.

You still miss Turkish people, talking Turkish, you still miss your culture. That's why New York is the best place to be because everywhere you go there's Turkish people, your friends are here, you can go to eat Turkish food every day.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

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 still miss the players and I miss the game and the strategy. The first couple years were really difficult. Now I realize I'll never coach again. It's still hard to go into the stadium on a game day, because it's hard to just be a fan. But it's easier now than it was the first two or three years.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.

Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.