Emily Post Quotes

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

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

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

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

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.

To be rude to someone is not my nature.