Manners Quotes

“I'll be a lady tomorrow”

— L.A. Meyer

She sleeps alone at last.

— Robert Benchley

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

— Samuel Johnson

“Manners maketh man”

— Tillie Cole

The greater person is one of courtesy.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better too much form than too little.

— Richard Whately

“much privilege leads to bad manners,”

— Danzy Senna

Manners form the great charm of women.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Amber Regina Elisa Davis, mind your manners,” Mom warned.”

— A.E. Davis

“Having manners is the sweet scent that calls you to the rose.”

— Bert McCoy

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

— Joseph Cook

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

— Benjamin Franklin

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

— Patricia Briggs

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

— Algernon Sidney

“Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners.”

— Sigmund Freud

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Noel Coward

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Bryan Cranston

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

— Edmund Spenser

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

— Lord Chesterfield

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

— Og Mandino

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule…

— Joseph R. Bartlett

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by…

— George Bernard Shaw

Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at…

— Lynn Coady

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There are two elements to nailing a job interview: form and substance. 'Form' describes the outer layer of your character - your…

— Neil Blumenthal

“Manners,[...] are severely underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" "Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be…

— Michelle Sagara West

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed.…

— Tom Stoppard

Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs,…

— Brian Jacques

“She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner couldn't feel…

— Laura Esquivel

His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library…

— Edward Gibbon

“Wasting talent is a sin. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in…

— Vicki Covington

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Which makes his good manners the more valuable. The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners…

— Jane Austen

I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral…

— Robert Burns

“In order to be polite, it is necessary to have something to give. Politeness is the art of doing to others the…

— Astolphe de Custine

“Realizing his ill manners, Thomas bowed at the waist, his eyes never leaving hers. “My name is Thomas Watson.” She made a…

— Amber Lynn Perry