Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
“Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune… — Noel Monk Copy Share Image
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us… — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
There's a lot of time when skaters think they know everything because they've seen videos of you, and seen you on TV… — Mike Vallely Copy Share Image
I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Your Worst Behavior Should Be Reserved For The Person Who Loves You The Most Because Somehow, No Matter What You Do.. That… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them. ... It is more feminine on witnessing such… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“In years gone by, particularly in the East and the South, ladies would attend charm school to learn how to elegantly stand,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
“The duke’s son and the pauper girl. I suppose as a couple we were the most interesting thing in view. I took… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Who taught you to go around falling on rats ans squishing on hats? Terrible, terrible. Must always be mindful of your manners.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The Orphan is not he who has lost his father, an orphan is he who lacks knowledge, refinement, good manners, morals, decorum,… — Anas Copy Share Image
I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous? — Julian Lennon Copy Share Image
“Modesty is a state of the heart. It veils the tongue. It clothes us in good manners. It envelops us with the… — T.J. Bowes Copy Share Image
“And how they take one in, with their manners and their mock wistfulness and gentleness.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There are something that money just cannot buy like manners, morals and intelligence. — Lauren Copy Share Image
Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
![“You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/953/fanny-burney-7403_devil_you-have-sensible-women-here-in-england_2177257.jpg)
