R. Lee Ermey Quotes

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 render even virtue tolerable.

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.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

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.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

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

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

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.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

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 love in a cool climate.

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

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

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

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

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.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.