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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

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire

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

Dwarf mothers didn't handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature. — Erik Bundy

My love's manners in bed
are 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

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners. — Noel Coward

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

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. — John Milton

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

E-Commerce makes it easy to spend money. Netiquette makes you aware hidden fees. — David Chiles

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's — Harper Lee

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners. — Judith Martin

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here. — Edward Abbey

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

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. — Hannah More

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 betters
mink 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

Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation. — Lynn Coady

Netiquette Rules bring us together. Culture creates great experiences. Share. — David Chiles

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

She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death. — Ali Smith

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess. — 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

It's bad manners to say " i love you"
With a mouth full of lies. — Unknown

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

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave. — Texas Guinan

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

A smiley face brightens cyber space. Smiling pics and emoticons are good netiquette. — David Chiles

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

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. — Roger Ascham

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

Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done. Do you like it? — Mark Twain

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

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

Open Doors For Others And Doors Will Open For You" Mama T — 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

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners — Laurence Sterne

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