Boots Riley Quotes

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.

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

It would be nice if people said, God bless you not just when you sneezed but also when you farted.

It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

You should respect the people you are around.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was - I was well-versed.

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

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

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

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.