Manners quotes

“You see, the great secret, Eliza, is not a question of good manners or bad manners, or any particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls. The question is not whether I treat you rudely, but whether you've ever heard me treat anyone else better.”
Rex Harrison - Professor Henry Higgins

“An officer and a gentleman does not strike a lady!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“- Jenner: Hear me! The Thorn Valley Plan is the aspiration of idiots and dreamers! We... We were just talking about you.
- Justin: That's refreshing, Jenner, usually you're screaming about us.”
Paul Shenar - Jenner
Peter Strauss - Justin

“- Dim: What did you do that for?
- Alex: For being a bastard with no manners and not a dook of an idea how to comport yourself public-wise.”
Warren Clarke - Dim
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

- RCMP Helecopter: Attention, please. Attention, please. This is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Would you come down from the tower, please.
- Honey: If you say "please" one more time, I'm gonna let you have it!
Rhea Perlman - Honey

- Uncle Mike: Once upon a time, there was a little girl named "Rachel". Actually, she wasn't all that little. She was a hot-looking high school senior with deep blue eyes, and fine, firm breasts and...
- Little Brian: That's not the way Mommy tells it!
- Uncle Mike: Shut up, that's the way I tell it.
Michael Mesmer - Uncle Mike
Brian DePersia - Little Brian

“Nice legs. What time do they open?”

Tom Hollander - Leonard Clark

“You know something? You ain't nothing special. You got no manners, you treat women like whores and, if you ask me, you got no chance of being no officer!”
Debra Winger - Paula Pokrifki

“I'm talking here, we're having a conversation here. You want to make a phone call, go to the John!”
Lolita Davidovich - Antoinette Baker

“- Michael Llewelyn Davies: Can we have him for supper?
- Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: Have him to stay for supper. We're not cannibals.”

Luke Spill - Michael Llewelyn Davies
Kate Winslet - Sylvia Llewelyn Davies

“- Silas P. Silas: This class is fucking boring I'm out of here.
- Dean Carl Cain: Uh, excuse me did I hear you say something?
- Silas P. Silas: With all do respect sir, suck my dick.”
Method Man - Silas P. Silas
Obba Babatundé - Dean Carl Cain

“I had so many years of being so very proper. I had good-girl claustrophobia.”
Bo Derek - Lida MacGillivery

“- Craig Toomy: I have an important meeting in Boston at nine o'clock! And I forbid you... from flying to some whistle-stop Maine airport! Do you hear me?
- Laurel Stevenson: Can you please quiet down? You're scaring the little girl.
- Craig Toomy: Scaring the little girl? Scaring the little glirl? Lady! We've been diverted to some tin... pot...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bronson Pinchot - Craig Toomy
Patricia Wettig - Laurel Stevenson

- Beautifull: Who you blowing your horn at? We are ladies, ok? You are supposed to say, "Excuse me, miss”.
- Liyah: It's David.
- Beautifull: I know.
- David: Excuse me, Miss. How are you?
- Beautifull: Now you see? That was much better.
Meagan Good - Beautifull
Jennifer Freeman - Liyah
Omarion Grandberry - David

“- Danny Muldoon: I suppose you're proud of yourself.
- Rose Muldoon: Just telling it like it is.
- Danny Muldoon: That's been your excuse for the last 67 years.
- Rose Muldoon: My excuse?
- Danny Muldoon: Your excuse for hurting people whenever the hell you feel like it!”
John Candy - Danny Muldoon
Maureen O'Hara - Rose Muldoon

“- Ruber: Find them all and report back to me! Did you hear me?
- Griffin: Sorry, Master. My mouth was full.
- Ruber: Typical! Of all the evil creatures in the world, I had to find one with table manners!”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Ruber
Bronson Pinchot - Griffin

“- Hyzenthlay: Sometimes I can tell when things are true. Sometimes... I can see it... The high down with trees, and... I've become foolish.
- Bigwig: You'll have to meet this friend of mine. He talks just like that.”

Hannah Gordon - Hyzenthlay
Michael Graham Cox - Bigwig

“My dear, either you were born on a extremely rustic community, where good manners are unknown, or you suffer from a common feminine delusion that the mere fact of being a woman exempts you from the rules of civilized conduct.”

Clifton Webb - Waldo Lydecker

“I'm sorry, what was the question? I was distracted by the half-masticated cow rolling around in your wide-open trap.”

Sir Michael Caine - Victor Melling

“- Milly: Well, it wouldn't hurt you to learn some manners, too.
- Adam Pontipee: What do I need manners for? I already got me a wife.”
Jane Powell - Milly
Howard Keel - Adam Pontipee

“You gotta have the looks, Chuck. I mean, you walk into a place like that and girls just want ya, ya know, ya got that kinda face. Kinda mean lookin' but with character. And the way you walk, you can only do that with a small body! Didya ever hear of a big sports car? I mean, if I'd look like you...”

Warren Beatty - Lyle Rogers

“- Mrs. Harris: Remember your manners. And don't forget to cross your ankles decently when you sit down. And don't sit in a draft, either. And don't slide down the banisters.
- Pauline Harris: Mama!
- Mrs. Harris: Well, you did at Nancy Pringle's wedding.
- Pauline Harris: Mama, that was 25 years ago! What do you think I am?”
Wendy Hiller - Mrs. Margaret Harris
Kate Lynch - Pauline Harris

“When my old man had something important to tell me, he told me with his belt.”
Walter Matthau - Mr. George Wilson

“This is a courtesy van; let's show some goddamn courtesy!”
Philip Sterling - Mr. Dietrich

- Young Faline: He's kinda bashful, isn't he, mama?
- Aunt Ena: Well, maybe he wouldn't be, if you'd say "hello".
Cammie King Conlon - Young Faline