Manners Quotes · Page 11

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

— Will Cuppy

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

— William Gilmore Simms

“Start netiquette conventions by emulating good users.

— David Chiles

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

— Molly Ivins

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

— Elsie de Wolfe

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

— Samuel Johnson

“He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing”

— Jane Austen

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

— Anonymous

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

— Sam Levenson

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

— Myrtle Reed

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Manners, you see, come down to a single principle: talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting.”

— Meredith Duran

“I had never come across a talking cat before, but good manners, as my father used to say, cost nothing.”

— Jasper Fforde

Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in…

— Lynn Coady

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

— Mignon McLaughlin

They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it…

— Rick Riordan

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the…

— Mercy Otis Warren

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go…

— Lore Segal

What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to…

— Judith Martin

“Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our…

— Benjamin Rush

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common…

— Samuel Adams

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and…

— Anonymous

Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite…

— E. M. Forster

Fathers are very, very important in building the foundations and self-esteem of children. For me, the way that I was raised, consideration,…

— Liv Tyler

So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think that one not only has to make demands on the established group, but one also has to make demands on…

— Norbert Elias

I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the…

— John Burroughs

The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

— Claudius Claudianus

“Manners, manners, then burn their bloodydamn house to the ground.”

— Pierce Brown

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

— Wendell Willkie

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

“Do not descend, but rise above so ill-mannered a person.”

— Mary Lydon Simonsen

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

— Jonathan Swift

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

— Ronan Farrow

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

— E. M. Forster