Horace Quotes

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Gentlemen don't do that.

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

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

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

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

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

Superior people never make long visits.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

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

Gentlemen, in light of this discussion, I must really leave the room. I can't stay any longer. It wouldn't be proper for me to remain.

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

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.

I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.

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.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

I'm a gentleman.

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.