“In all ranks and all stations of life, how strangely characters and manners differ!” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
Do not feel ashamed if the amount of charity is small because to refuse the needy is an act of greater shame. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good manners are the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Fight for friends. Joyful trips. Examination fever. Suspense of results. Making parodies of teachers. Joking with juniors. Carefree laughters. Gossips about affairs.… — Aldyna Threesya Copy Share Image
“It may seem a little obvious that Megan would feel that in her music or that I would feel it in woodworking,… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
“Manners Matter. Courteous behavior is the hallmark of healthy relations and human interaction. Manners ensure you will be more respected, admired, and… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and… — Jean Ferris Copy Share Image
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“We eventually come to a one-story house that looks as though it's on its way to becoming one with the forest surrounding… — Travis Thrasher Copy Share Image
Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners.… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion.… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners. — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge... — Abdullah ibn Mubarak Copy Share Image
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark? — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Screaming and yelling at others to get work done is the wrong way of doing things. Learn to communicate by being respectful… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image