Manners Quotes · Page 2

Good manners are never passé.

— Slim Aarons

Politeness is practical Christianity.

— Orville Dewey

There is no nobility with bad manners.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Politeness is what warmth is to wax

— German Proverb

You lose your manners when you're poor.

— Lillian Hellman

Good manners require space and time.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

— Joseph Joubert

Manners are stronger than laws

— Thomas Carlyle

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

— Algernon Sidney

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Fuck your manners." "You don't have to settle for just my manners.”

— Nenia Campbell

Maturity doesn't mean age; it means sensitivity, manners, and how you react.

— Anonymous

“OUr past doesn't define us. It prepares us.”

— Maralee McKee

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

— Fiona Bruce

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

— Malcolm Forbes

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

— Richard Whately

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

— Herbert Spencer

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

— Emily Post

“Making your own Netiquette is advanced internet use, but it's not that hard. It's all good.

— David Chiles

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Any guy I date has to have manners - you know, get the door. And he has to have confidence and be…

— Molly Sims

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

— Alice Munro

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners…

— Bono

I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and…

— Derek Blasberg

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant…

— Lord Chesterfield

I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my…

— Washington Irving

I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Alexia had, in part, compensated for a lack of soul through the liberal application of manners. This was rather like donning an…

— Gail Carriger

We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of…

— Humphry Davy

Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams of starting a Martha Stewart magazine…

— Jerry Oppenheimer

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a…

— Alicia Markova

“Miss Manners remembers who should be introduced to whom, but then she also remembers the difference between “who” and “whom.” The formula…

— Judith Martin

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly…

— John Galsworthy

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may…

— Francis Parkman

Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners.…

— Larry McMurtry