Ant Middleton Quotes

I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.

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

I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.

If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

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.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.

To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to you at some sort of 'finishing school' where you could actually learn the laws of propriety and the skills of appearing well-adapted, easygoing and attractively trouble free. But where do you learn these things? I don't know.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

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

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into me and said hello, I would say hello back, politely. And that would be it.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

I think civility is important to getting things done.