Dana Perino Quotes

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

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

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

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Be polite. Write diplomatically. Even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

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.

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

Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Smartness, a good appearance, courtesy, delicacy are not yet norms, are not yet an integral part of the approach of workers in the state apparatus, of their approach either to work or to dealing with the public.

I really think the more talent people have, the more polite they are: Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness always arrived on time and were impeccably behaved. It's only the gutter snipes who leave their lipstick on the studio floor - and that's just the men.

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

There's a civility that has always been a part of me.

I don't know where, or by whom, Judge Wapner was raised, but my parents taught me, when you don't have something nice to say about someone, say nothing.

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.