Stanislaus Leszczynski Quotes

It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.

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

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

Good manners require space and time.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying to impress me.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split.

There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country? The answer is simple. We no longer have manners to speak of.

Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

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