Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.” — Fanny Jackson Coppin Copy Share Image
A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. — Bill Kelly Copy Share Image
“Teamwork is good netiquette. All good users can work together to accomplish goals. — David Chiles Copy Share Image
It's so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated. — David Beckham Copy Share Image
If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid. - — Eccles David Copy Share Image
England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
“Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners. In twenty years, they’d have country houses and children with pretentious literary names and tennis… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
There are few things more American than falling back on the language of race when what we're really talking about is class… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places,… — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
The world does not have a voice of its own. It can't tell you what it wants, what it needs. But it's… — Bray Wyatt Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
“Miss Manners corrects only upon request. Then she does it from a distance, with no names attached, and no personal relationship, however… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves.… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
If you're a gentleman you would hold the door open for anyone not just lady's it's called manners. — Rajat Dogra Copy Share Image
“Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Great appearance and manners may help to cure your insecurities in the public place.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Flannery O'Connor is my creative hero. I think she's the greatest American writer. Her book, 'Mystery and Manners,' is my creative bible. — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
“He was an arsehole like that. It was entirely because of good manners that I didn't punch him in the face.” — Kuansiew Copy Share Image
To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Dwarf mothers didn’t handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were… — Erik Bundy Copy Share Image
“manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
