Buzz Osborne Quotes

All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes - God knows we weren't - but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

I am not particularly well-behaved.

I'd say I'm quite well behaved! It's just the way I've been brought up, really.

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

Good manners don't cost nothing.

I think there's this primal need to go to a show when you're a rock fan. And it's about that camaraderie and about that intangible feeling that we all get.

I always try to be nice. I never want to be that person that anyone perceives as being rude or disrespectful, 'cause that's not me at all.

You don't spit on people, especially people's corners.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’