Tina Brown Quotes

Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able to communicate with all people on all levels is what's got me so far.

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

To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to you at some sort of 'finishing school' where you could actually learn the laws of propriety and the skills of appearing well-adapted, easygoing and attractively trouble free. But where do you learn these things? I don't know.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. It is the practice of sacrificing to those whom we meet in society, all the little inconveniences and preferences which will gratify them, and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration; it is the giving a pleasing and flattering turn to our expressions, which will conciliate others, and make them pleased with us as well as themselves. How cheap a price for the good will of another!

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

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.

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

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

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

Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority

If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.

I try to ask a question rather than give a speech.