Lewis Carroll Quotes

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

My family trained me to be polite to people I had just met, and that included strangers. You speak when you're spoken to. You look people in the eye when they address you and when you address them back.

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.

Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.

I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention your friend's name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, "ladies and gentlemen." It is a lack of good manners.

It would be nice if people said, God bless you not just when you sneezed but also when you farted.

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

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

Good manners require space and time.

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.