Michelle Trachtenberg Quotes

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.

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

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

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

I have realised that it's important to be a sport, be nice, and know what to speak and when.

I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don't feel comfortable about me talking about it. So I don't.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

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

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

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

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.

I don't really talk too much about my personal life, but I'm happy.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

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

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

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

I can be nice - I don't need to be rude for no reason.

I don't know where, or by whom, Judge Wapner was raised, but my parents taught me, when you don't have something nice to say about someone, say nothing.