behavioral etiquette Quotes

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

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

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.... Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners. Certainly what one is, is of far greater importance than what one appears to be.

Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

When you are around people who have money, you realise money isn't that impressive, it's about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.