Benny Goodman Quotes

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.

I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.

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

Just because you can say things that are uncivil does not mean that your should say things that are uncivil.

I'm not disrespectful, I try to be polite.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

I'm surprised you don't know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word 'please.

The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.

Love may fail, but #‎ courtesy will prevail.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.