Elsa Maxwell Quotes

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

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

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

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.

Manners are really very important to me.

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

It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.

It's important to be courteous; it has to be. I was raised very well by my parents, so it's about being polite and courteous.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

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.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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 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.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

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.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

All doors open to courtesy.