Renee O'Connor Quotes

The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it's cool to wear your honesty on your sleeve at the expense of everyone around you?

Be respectful. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Respect the lowest rank and the highest rank and you'll never get in trouble.

Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.

I think sometimes people forget how to be nice to people. I try not to let it get to me.

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

People are always very nice.

I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.

I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.

I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.