“Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Flannery O'Connor is my creative hero. I think she's the greatest American writer. Her book, 'Mystery and Manners,' is my creative bible. — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
“I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast… — Moon Unit Zappa Copy Share Image
“I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
A queue doesn't necessarily imply order and good manners among our fellow men. Usually it's just down to poor organisation, under-staffing and… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
“Realizing his ill manners, Thomas bowed at the waist, his eyes never leaving hers. “My name is Thomas Watson.” She made a… — Amber Lynn Perry 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
“Which makes his good manners the more valuable. The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Wasting talent is a sin. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in… — Vicki Covington 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
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
Of course mama has taught us all to use our manners. Though there are times that are appropriate for you to be… — Epifania Savea Copy Share Image
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. — Moshe Katsav Copy Share Image
When approaching me in public, do not be rude. Say please. Introduce yourself. Have manners. Be considerate. Otherwise you'll be disappointed. — CM Punk Copy Share Image
We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Money doesn't mean that you are educated, have manners, class or even have good hygiene. All it means is . . . you have money! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I believe very strongly in kindness, in good manners, in treating people with equanimity and a sense of humour and all those… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour — Hugh Massingberd Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, chivalry seems to be on the decline, but let's hope that manners can remain important. I, for one, will certainly be… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my… — Ann-Margret Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
