Isabelle Adjani Quotes

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

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

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

I try to be kind to people, to treat them with respect. And I'm proud of that.

The only thing I command is respect.

I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

Kiss the hand you cannot bite.

You have it, madam.

If you ever keep [Vice President] Hubert [Humphrey] waiting again, I'll kick your ass down that hall.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

I open the doors for everybody all the time.

The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.

You have to respectfully listen to advice.

I really admire the fact that whenever Marc Singer gets a call from someone running late, he says he's running late, too. I don't admit that even when it's true. Small, unnoticeable acts of generosity are sometimes the most impressive.

I got taught respect because if not, somebody's gonna make you respect them.

I do not raise brats!