Samora Machel Quotes

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

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

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

I really think the more talent people have, the more polite they are: Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness always arrived on time and were impeccably behaved. It's only the gutter snipes who leave their lipstick on the studio floor - and that's just the men.

I have been known for my courtesy on and off the bench.

There's a civility that has always been a part of me.

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

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.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

I'm a gentleman.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

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.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.