Quinn Cook Quotes

I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

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

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

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

Men have always been gentlemen to me - responsible people with healthy attitudes.

Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.

My parents always told me to be respectful to anyone you meet and to live your life that way.

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

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

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

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners.

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

Good manners require space and time.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

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

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.