Michael McIntyre Quotes

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.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'

Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

If my girls are rude, it's over. There is no place in the world for it.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

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

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

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