Madeline Carroll Quotes

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

My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.

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

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

If I say to my daughter, "Go say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

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

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

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had 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.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

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

But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact.

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

Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.