George Washington Quotes

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama.

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

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

We don't have spittoons on street corners any more. It's no longer acceptable to spit on the street.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

You don't spit on people, especially people's corners.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.

I don't want to do anything in bad taste.

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

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Gentlemen don't do that.

The American sense of decorum is falling apart.

We'd never do anything tasteless. There's enough to make fun of without offending.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.