Cormac McCarthy Quotes

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.

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

I would never disrespect anyone.

Civility is not simply about manners.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.

I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

Never treat the audience disrespectfully.

Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.

I'm just not going around disrespecting people.

I'm not disrespectful to anybody that I'm cool with.

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.

Good manners require space and time.

I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

My only hope was to be polite.

Good manners are a part of good morals.