J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

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

Manners are really very important to me.

Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

Manners are the ornament of action.

Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.

Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

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

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

My family trained me to be polite to people I had just met, and that included strangers. You speak when you're spoken to. You look people in the eye when they address you and when you address them back.

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.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

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.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Civility is not simply about manners.