Trace Adkins Quotes

I don't accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to use the right knives and forks and behave properly.

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

I can tell when I meet you, within three minutes, how you were raised. When I met Lady Gaga on the 'American Horror' set... beautifully brought up.

I'm proud of my middle-class background because that's how I've grown up. I have my values and sensibilities.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.