Martin Cooper Quotes

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

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

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

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

I don't like it when people remain glued to their phones while talking, so I have no apps on mine.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

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

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'

Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

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

There's no excuse for rudeness.

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

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

If my girls are rude, it's over. There is no place in the world for it.

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

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

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

My family trained me to be polite to people I had just met, and that included strangers. You speak when you're spoken to. You look people in the eye when they address you and when you address them back.

If you're having dinner with friends and they're always on the phone or always texting, it's just impolite. Unless it's something important - like someone is in the hospital or something - don't do it.

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

In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.