Hugh Jackman Quotes

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.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

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

Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.

Civility is a choice.

Oh, I'd never put my elbows on the table.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

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.

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

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

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.