Immanuel Kant Quotes

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant.

The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning.

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

The etiquette question has become of so much importance as to be an object of state.

Civility is a choice.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

Please, Lord Maccon, use one of the cups. My delicate sensibilities.” The earl actually snorted. “My dear Miss Tarabotti, if you possessed any such things, you certainly have never shown them to me.

I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.