Derek Blasberg Quotes

I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

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.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

As laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so good manners are necessary that laws may be maintained.

All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes - God knows we weren't - but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.

There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country? The answer is simple. We no longer have manners to speak of.

Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.

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

Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.