Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

I would never disrespect anyone.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

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

For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.

Manners are more important than laws. Upon them, in great measure, the laws depend.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

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

One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.

Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.

I think we need a rulebook saying that everyone should be lovely to each other. It doesn't cost anything to be nice.

I'm nice to everybody, I respect other people. If you respect me, I respect you.

People in England have a lot of respect. It is relaxed here.

Everyone can be rude, and everyone can be kind.

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. 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.