I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

Bill Nighy

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Benjamin Banneker

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

Bill Nighy

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Bryan Cranston

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Bryant H. McGill

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

David Ogilvy

I get more disgusted with men all the time - particularly traveling Americans. They start out on a trip to Europe and never bother to pack a dinner jacket. This is not only stupid - it's bad manners.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Flannery O'Connor

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!

Graydon Carter

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Henry James

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Jonathan Swift

There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.

Letitia Baldrige

I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.

Letitia Baldrige

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Lillian Gish

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

Maye Musk

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

Patrick Kavanagh

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

Rosalind Wiseman