Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

I send thank you notes, not emails, even if I'm staying at a friend's house or something. I'm very old school.

Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.

I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.

If I'm out to dinner with a group of friends, and somebody offers to pay for the check, I immediately reach for my wallet. Inside is a note that says, "Say thanks!"

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

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.

A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.