Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

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.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.

Civility is a choice.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

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.

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

Civility cost nothing.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.