Manners Quotes · Page 29

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only…

— Leon Krier

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

“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of…

— Jane Austen

Do not feel ashamed if the amount of charity is small because to refuse the needy is an act of greater shame.

— Anonymous

“In all ranks and all stations of life, how strangely characters and manners differ!”

— Frances Burney

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Good manners are the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others.

— Alice Miller

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

— Rush Limbaugh

“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

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

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

“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

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

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of…

— Danny Boyle

I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at…

— Christopher Lee

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

The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of…

— Jules Feiffer

The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies…

— Edward Gibbon

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the…

— John Steinbeck

“Till now, I could not have supposed it possible to be mistaken as to a girl's being out or not. A girl…

— Jane Austen

“You cannot escape that you are a woman,” she began. “I wish I could,” Firekeeper muttered, but Elise continued as if she…

— Jane Lindskold

Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to…

— Judith Martin

I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had…

— Joan Didion

Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught…

— Renata Adler

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

“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

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

— Tom Robbins

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

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

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

— Marian Wright Edelman

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.

— Keith Richards

“And how they take one in, with their manners and their mock wistfulness and gentleness.”

— D.H. Lawrence

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?

— Julian Lennon

“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

The Orphan is not he who has lost his father, an orphan is he who lacks knowledge, refinement, good manners, morals, decorum,…

— Anas

“Who taught you to go around falling on rats ans squishing on hats? Terrible, terrible. Must always be mindful of your manners.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

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