If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

I didn’t play with other children.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Everybody likes a compliment.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

I have no problem if someone wants to hug me – if I know him!

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says ‚Hi‘ during the day.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‚death by cupcake.‘

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.