William Shenstone Quotes

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

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

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

I'm a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it's not going to upset her.

I like to be treated as a lady.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

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

If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor.

Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority

I've said nice things about the people I was with before, but that's what you do.

Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.

I've never given my phone number to someone on the street, but when someone is a gentleman, I appreciate the compliments.

I call people 'captain' a lot and it makes them feel special. Until they hear me using it for everyone, that is.

My parents always told me to be respectful to anyone you meet and to live your life that way.

Bowing and showing respect - I don't give nothing about none of that. I'm just coming in and fighting.

You get on an elevator with someone, you say hi to them, you speak to them. You give respect. That's just how I've always been.

People in England have a lot of respect. It is relaxed here.

I always try to be nice. I never want to be that person that anyone perceives as being rude or disrespectful, 'cause that's not me at all.

I wouldn't fart in front of my wife, and she wouldn't do it in front of me.

Please don't stand up on my account.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.