Bryan Burrough Quotes

Just because you can say things that are uncivil does not mean that your should say things that are uncivil.

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.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

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

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

I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.

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

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

If you're rude to waiters or waitstaff, I cannot handle that. I really think that shows your true personality.

If someone says something vulgar to you and you retweet it, now you're giving them a voice, and you never want to give hate a voice.

Me and polite have never been on close terms.

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.

I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.

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

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.

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.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

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

Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

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