Letitia Baldrige Quotes

You hear things about certain people. When you hear someone was mean to a limo driver or a wardrobe lady, or someone was rotten to a fan, somewhere in your brain it gets stuck.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

Rudeness, I think, is the worst.

I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum.

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse me'. Typical.

People are rude in general.

… the scene of noise and uproar which the House of Commons now exhibits is perfectly disgusting. This used not to be the case in better, or at lease more gentlemanlike, times; no noises were permissible but the cheer and the cough, the former admitting every variety of intonation expressive of admiration, approbation, assent, denial, surprise, indignation, menace, sarcasm. Now all the musical skill of this instrument is lost and drowned in shouts, hootings, groans, noises of the most discordant that the human throat can emit, sticks and feet beating against the floor.

I may interrupt people or be nasty, but I am never rude. So every interview starts with a shake of a hand and ends with a shake of a hand.

If you're rude to waiters or waitstaff, I cannot handle that. I really think that shows your true personality.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

I have actually had to ask my supervisors not to curse in meetings or in general in the workplace.

Here in America, people are very professional.

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.

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

Flame mails and offensive Internet activities are not classy. It doesn't fit with our culture here, where we respect the gender, race, opinions, ear-lobe apparel and choice of clothing of all employees.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

[Benjamin Franklin's life was:] ... one continued insult to good manners and decency.

Are you running an airline or a whorehouse?

It is an outrage that Donald Trump can swear and scream on national television and no one says boo about how he presents himself.

Disrespect is my biggest pet peeve.

I'm at the doctor's office. I'm in the waiting room. And there's this guy on his cell phone, talking really loud. Does he think he owns the place? Apparently. I think this is so offensive. But you have to remember: It doesn't take a cell phone to make people rude. People were rude before there were cell phones.