That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The heart of love not knowing couples have shown love on the Public places — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to… — Anna Camp Copy Share Image
“Please stop,” I said politely—he was that big. One should always mind one’s manners around big things.” — Lish McBride Copy Share Image
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves.… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“but we know in the South that the real purpose of manners is to make life easier for everyone, easier both to… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“DEAR MISS MANNERS: I a tired of being treated like a child. My father says it's because I am a child--I am… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
