Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
She says I am not fair, that I lack manners; She calls me proud, and that she could not love me, Were… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
“ “Good manners are free, but forgetting them often costs you dearly.” -Traditional Southern Wisdom” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
My family would soon tell me if I was getting above my station. I love what I do, I love my job,… — Kerry Ellis Copy Share Image
“What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“The elegance of etiquette is a timeless expression of class which transcends social status, demographics, educational level, and ethnicity. Good manners say… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
In the 50s and 60s, kids were taught how to shake hands. They were taught how to have manners. There needs to… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
“HIGGINS [*snatching a chocolate cream from the piano, his eyes suddenly beginning to twinkle with mischief*] Have some chocolates, Eliza. LIZA [*halting,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them.… — Henry Alford Copy Share Image
“She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner couldn't feel… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
No one has ever been offended by someone with good manners and courteous behaviour. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is… — Helen Lawrenson Copy Share Image
“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude. — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.” — Moazzam Shaikh Copy Share Image
My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses. — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
There are some things that money just can't buy. Like manners, morals and integrity. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
My grandmother used to teach me that it's bad manners to invite yourself to somebody's house. — Andrey Arshavin Copy Share Image
We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids. — Oliver Hudson Copy Share Image
The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Do not confuse manners for kindness. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts.” — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
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