Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing… — Tom Taylor Copy Share Image
“Common decency, good manners, kindness and hard work were treated as peculiarities” — Ruth Hogan Copy Share Image
“God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?” — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Our privacy can serve as a form of protection during times of crisis and can offer a polite boundary of respect and… — Christopher Manske Copy Share Image
Aline: "He's cute, for a Downworlder" Sebastian: "You'll have to forgive her; she has the face of an angel and the manners… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Picking on people is not my sort of humour, but I think there's quite a lot of it around. We're slowly turning… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was… — John Steinbeck 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
