Hanna Rosin Quotes

If my girls are rude, it's over. There is no place in the world for it.

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

There's no excuse for rudeness.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

I'm not disrespectful to anybody that I'm cool with.

Good manners don't cost nothing.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

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

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

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

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

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.