Rosalind Wiseman Quotes

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

I don't accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.

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

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

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

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

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

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

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

As laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so good manners are necessary that laws may be maintained.

My mom would still be mad if I didn't say 'please' and 'thank you.'

All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes - God knows we weren't - but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.

I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.

My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I'm doing, but to be polite.

I'm a kid who has a lot of respect. I believe in respect.

My parents were very strict about manners and being polite to others. I brought my own children up that way, too.

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

I pride myself on being the nicest person in the room. My grandmother always told me, 'Manners will take you where money won't.' When I walk into a room, I say "hello" to everyone I don't care who the person is or what they do, it's simply being respectful.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.