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… — Arthur Wimperis Copy Share Image
It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.” — T. A. Miles Copy Share Image
It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that. — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.” — Maralee McKee Copy Share Image
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to… — Anne Sebba Copy Share Image
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It doesn't change the way I am, but I do totally understand how you're looked at as a footballer, especially by children.… — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
“Sydney tried — sometimes he really tried — but his default mindset didn’t have those kinds of manners. What he really meant… — Rebecca McKinsey Copy Share Image
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
“I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast… — Moon Unit Zappa Copy Share Image
Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“of the growth of self-restraint. A starting point for Elias’s analysis was medieval treatises on polite manners such as the book On… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners. — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
No matter how badly people treat you, never drop yourself down on their level, just know youre better and walk away. — Anas Copy Share Image
When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“Instead of asking your child what they learned today, ask them who they helped today.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members. — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
“When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.” — John Patrick Hickey Copy Share Image
“It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.” — Barbara Cameron Copy Share Image
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
