Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

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

Insulting players and coaches and spitting on us is simply wrong. You cannot go out and walk around town and just start insulting people or spit at them either.

I don't talk to scum.

With a woman around, there's a tendency to eliminate vulgarity and profanity and create a more businesslike attitude.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

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

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

... a lying son of a bitch.

Gutless chickenshit!!!

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young man for his seat. He replied, 'There's one over there'. I said, 'Please', and when he refused I poured my water over him.

If you're rude to waiters or waitstaff, I cannot handle that. I really think that shows your true personality.

I'm not mean to fans because I'm a bad guy. I'm mean to them because they're rude.

I'm just not going around disrespecting people.

You don't spit on people, especially people's corners.

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

I detest those who deceive me.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope." Sure you don't, I thought.

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.