Richard Quest Quotes

You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys.

Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.

I never heckle. I never swear.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

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

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

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.

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

If you're not a nice person, don't call.

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

I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

[Benjamin Franklin's life was:] ... one continued insult to good manners and decency.

Civility does not mean surrender.

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

I am very respectful and always have been.

I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of stuff, because you don't have to do that. You don't have to act like that, and you don't have to live like that in order to be successful.