Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren't.

If you're rude to waiters or waitstaff, I cannot handle that. I really think that shows your true personality.

When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was - I was well-versed.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.... Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners. Certainly what one is, is of far greater importance than what one appears to be.

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

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

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

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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.

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.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.