Jim Butcher Quotes

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

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

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

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.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

If you're not a nice person, don't call.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

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

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

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

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

There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country? The answer is simple. We no longer have manners to speak of.

Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.

There's a civility that has always been a part of me.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

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.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.