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
There are something that money just cannot buy like manners, morals and intelligence. — Lauren 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 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
“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 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
You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places,… — Elinor Lipman 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
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
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
“Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess Should teach them the poor to despise; For 'tis good manners, and not… — Jane Taylor Copy Share Image
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“Miss Manners remembers who should be introduced to whom, but then she also remembers the difference between “who” and “whom.” The formula… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams of starting a Martha Stewart magazine… — Jerry Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a… — Alicia Markova Copy Share Image
“In order to be polite, it is necessary to have something to give. Politeness is the art of doing to others the… — Astolphe de Custine 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
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
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
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“He was an arsehole like that. It was entirely because of good manners that I didn't punch him in the face.” — Kuansiew Copy Share Image
To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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
“Dwarf mothers didn’t handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were… — Erik Bundy 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
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
“Great appearance and manners may help to cure your insecurities in the public place.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
