Sam Brown Quotes

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Be polite. Write diplomatically. Even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

I don't aim to offend.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

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.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

The world prefers decorum to honesty.

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

I don't know where, or by whom, Judge Wapner was raised, but my parents taught me, when you don't have something nice to say about someone, say nothing.

You can't just be crass without being witty. Angry crass is horrible.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.

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

Obviously I'm going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.