John Dewey Quotes

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

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

Forget love. Try good manners.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.

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

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

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

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

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

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.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

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

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