Karl Kraus Quotes

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

I am at heart a gentleman.

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

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

Kiss the hand you cannot bite.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace – but a peace I hope with honour.

Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face.

We have to respect the opponents.

Unfortunately, we've reached a point in society where we don't mind staying mad at each other for awhile. It wasn't always like that.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I'm a gentleman.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

Can we all get along?

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.

Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.