Emily Post Quotes

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

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

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.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

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

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

I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.

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

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?'

Manners are more important than laws. Upon them, in great measure, the laws depend.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split.

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

Manners are really very important to me.

Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.

I'm polite.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.