Kyle Quotes

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

I'm from Santa Monica, which was an awesome place to grow up. You're very spoiled being from California. When it's below 70, you complain. When it rains, you talk about it.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Manners form the great charm of women.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

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.

My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

I've said nice things about the people I was with before, but that's what you do.

People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.

My mom is the kind of mom, when we would go to a friend of the family's house, and they would offer us something to drink or offer us something to eat, my mother would always say, 'Tell them no.' You could be starving - you could be dehydrated - but as kids, we were supposed to tell the host, 'No.'

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

My career has been one long love letter to California as a whole, top to bottom.

Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.

I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'

Lack of etiquette and manners is a huge turn off. Men who don't behave decently are irritating. Also, I don't like guys who show off. When will guys realize that girls hate showoffs!

There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.

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.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.