Manners Quotes · Page 24

“All manners are not created equal and can conjure different interpretations based on the environment in which they are being displayed.”

— Susan C. Young

When you hear someone gossiping about you, remember 2 Don'ts -- don't get angry and don't react with tit for tat. Neither…

— Mufti Ismail Menk

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.

— David Duchovny

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

— William Shakespeare

“Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done.…

— Mark Twain

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

— Bernie Brillstein

A queue doesn't necessarily imply order and good manners among our fellow men. Usually it's just down to poor organisation, under-staffing and…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

“Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess Should teach them the poor to despise; For 'tis good manners, and not…

— Jane Taylor

The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon…

— Henry Steele Commager

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit…

— Bill Nighy

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and…

— James Anthony Froude

The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer.…

— Natalie Goldberg

The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,…

— Fanny Kemble

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine…

— William Hazlitt

I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles.…

— Sue Grafton

“One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are only the expression of happy ideas. There’s a whole…

— Judith Martin

“What a nice thing to say," Mom said, standing up a little straighter, as if she'd been watered. Marlena's manners were unpracticed,…

— Julie Buntin

In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these…

— Sam Hamill

“Grits know when enough is enough. Having good manners doesn’t mean you should allow others to push you around. A Southern girl…

— Deborah Ford

I don't like people being rude. Bad manners and arrogance make me cross. People making others feel uncomfortable. And I really don't…

— Alan Titchmarsh

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you.…

— John Boyne

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

— Lord Acton

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

— Dick Gregory

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

— Walt Whitman

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

— William Allen White

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

— Cassandra Clare

“He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.”

— Anne Enright

“You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.”

— Ted Dekker

“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

— Amy Vanderbilt

Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness…

— Neil Gaiman

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

— Ovid

Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This…

— Mats Wilander

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

— Elizabeth Bowen

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

— Robert MacNeil

When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.

— Ntozake Shange