Tom Ford Quotes

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

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

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

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Everybody forgets names and faces, and it's just inconsiderate to expect someone who isn't your boss or your sister-in-law to know exactly who you are.

Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.

It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.

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

Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms.

Be respectful. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Respect the lowest rank and the highest rank and you'll never get in trouble.

Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

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

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

Remain dignified, dress well, be good to other people and you’ll be fine.

I learned that everyone makes mistakes and has weaknesses and that one of the most important things that differentiates people is their approach to handling them. I learned that there is an incredible beauty to mistakes, because embedded in each mistake is a puzzle, and a gem that I could get if I solved it, i.e. a principle that I could use to reduce my mistakes in the future.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.