Aubrey Beardsley Quotes

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

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

Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.

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.

Every member present must behave like a gentleman, and those who are not must try to.

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.

I think civility is important to getting things done.

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

Me and polite have never been on close terms.

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

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

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.