Eddie Izzard Quotes

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

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

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.

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

Manners are really very important to me.

You should respect the people you are around.

I'm just not going around disrespecting people.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.

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

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

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

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

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

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

People say when you're in love, you don't need etiquette. Well, you need it then more than anything. Or they say, "At home I can just be myself." What they mean is they can be their worst selves... They always mean they will save all their anxiety about how to behave for somebody like the head waiter of a restaurant, someone they'll never see again.

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

People give out compliments because it's polite.