Peter Mayle Quotes

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

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.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

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.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Forget love. Try good manners.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe.

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

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.

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

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.