Lewis Carroll Quotes

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Just because you can say things that are uncivil does not mean that your should say things that are uncivil.

I'm not disrespectful, I try to be polite.

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

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

I am at heart a gentleman.

I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I'll do that.' She's all about courtesy.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

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.

Girls really like for doors to be opened for them. Guys should really remember that.

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

All doors open to courtesy.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

If you're not a nice person, don't call.

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.

I would never disrespect anyone.

To be rude to someone is not my nature.

Civility is not simply about manners.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?