Alphonse Karr Quotes

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

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

I tend to be pretty calm.

There's no reason to be angry or impolite.

Always maintain your composure.

I don't know where, or by whom, Judge Wapner was raised, but my parents taught me, when you don't have something nice to say about someone, say nothing.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

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

A gentleman is never in a hurry.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

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

Calmness is the cradle of power.

I'm patient.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

I am calm most of the time.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

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.

You must preserve supreme calm in the midst of all agitation, never appearing disturbed or anxious about anything that may occur.

Neither anger nor fury shall find lodging in their minds, and all their words and actions should be marked with calm deliberation.