David Droga Quotes

I don't aim to offend.

I do not want to insult anyone with my act and am very careful about it.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.

I don't want to offend people.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I'd take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

I have no intention of offending somebody who writes a weekly column.

Nothing is too controversial, but you have to think about how to do it with sensitivity. I don't try to be insensitive. I think really, really carefully about exactly what things mean and how they will affect people.

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

I don't see myself as offending people.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority