Manners Quotes
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Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.
— Moazzam Shaikh
He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.
— Samuel Johnson
Association with women is the basis of good manners.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
— Honore De Balzac
Your mood shouldn't dictate your manners.
— Turcois Ominek
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
— Charles Dickens
As he always says, the day there's no time for manners, the world's lost to us anyway.
— Ransom Riggs
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
— Martin Luther
I didn't need to transform after all.My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.
And maybe that's not so bad after all. — Holly Smale
My love's manners in bedare not to be discussed by me — Robert Creeley
Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
— Apollonius Of Tyana
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
— Patricia Briggs
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
— Benjamin Banneker
Good manners will do that; turn a situation around. You got to treat people like people.
— Lauren Beukes
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
— Jonathan Swift
Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
— Rosalind Wiseman
Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
— William Gilbert
Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
— Herbert Spencer
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.
— Judith Martin
Everything has a consequence to it.
— John Patrick Hickey
Manners. Manners will get you through anything.
— Ronan Farrow
Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners.
— Sigmund Freud
Oh, the things she would say if she could--but it's a minefield of courtesies and manners, this dying business.
— Jess Walter
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water.
— William Shakespeare
I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their bettersmink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming. — Arthur Wimperis
I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox.
— Anna Freeman
Good manners cost nothing
— E. Dantes
Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember.
— Christopher Titus
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.
— Raymond Chandler
Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.
— Richard E. Byrd
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
— Alice Duer Miller
I believe in teaching manners without causing fisticuffs.
— Letitia Baldrige
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly ...
— Margaret Mead
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
— William Congreve
Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.
— Sir Fulke Greville
And where does she find them?
— Dorothy Parker
He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.
— Gail Carriger
A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.
— Judith Martin
Not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.
— Frank Crowninshield
The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.
— Geraldine Brooks
Even when I have bad manners... I'm still polite!
— Jose N. Harris
She ate with good manners, using the knife in the French way to push things onto her fork. She
— Ashley Gardner
I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.
— Letitia Baldrige
What? Do rolly-pollys not have basic manners or any personal boundaries?
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.
— William Wilberforce
The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.
— Maralee McKee
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business.
— Emily Post
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
— Baron De Montesquieu
No matter who it is or what you think of them, never rejoice in the pain of others. It lowers you to a level you should not be at.
— John Patrick Hickey
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
— Mark Twain
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
— Bill Vaughan
Good manners are a sign of strength.
— Dick Francis
Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all else has fled. On
— Margaret George
Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.
— Lori Foster
A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
— Michel De Montaigne
Without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible
— George Bernard Shaw
The difference of language, dress, and manners ... severs and alienates the nations of the globe.
— Edward Gibbon
They handed over spider plants in terra-cotta, six-packs, books, bottles of wine. Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners.
— Lauren Groff
Making your own Netiquette is advanced internet use, but it's not that hard. It's all good.
— David Chiles
Bad manners does not mean they make bad company.
— Kelly R. Michaels
people; 'Manners like a creased polyester shirt
— Nina George
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
— John Ruskin
What times! What manners!
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
— Oscar Wilde
Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.
— Art Spander
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Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary.
— John Patrick Hickey
The great secret ... is not having bad manners or good manners ... but having the same manner for all human souls.
— George Bernard Shaw
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
— George Orwell
Good manners require space and time.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
— William Howard Taft
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— Teresa Mama T. Schimandle
A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind.
— Shannon L. Alder
Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
— Karen Joy Fowler
I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.
— Robert Treat Paine
Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.
— Jean De La Bruyere