Letitia Baldrige Quotes

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

It's rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It's rude - rude to other people.

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

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

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

I almost felt that I should offer to serve coffee.

If one is respected, it is only because one shows one's respect for others first.

I know that if I want to be respected, I have to show respect.

I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.

I think people need to be treated with respect, and that's what we've demanded from everyone.

Everyone can be rude, and everyone can be kind.

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.