Oscar Wilde Quotes

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able to communicate with all people on all levels is what's got me so far.

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to you at some sort of 'finishing school' where you could actually learn the laws of propriety and the skills of appearing well-adapted, easygoing and attractively trouble free. But where do you learn these things? I don't know.

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

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

The whole art of flirting has simply disappeared. This probably will do further damage. If we're going to become so uptight that we can't say nice things to each other, then we've had it!

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.

Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.

There are always proper responses, even to rude questions.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

if you have to say “no offense” to someone, you have already offended them.

I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.

You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. "Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke." Violet looked at Simon. "Do you want to have this conversation with my son?" "Not particularly." "Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet.

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.