P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Manners

Quotes about: Manners

• Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Good Man, Style, Together

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Order, Land, Voice

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Years, Good Man

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Tables, Matter, Table Manners

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Good Man, Done

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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