No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A man's own good breeding ishis best security against other people's ill-manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in manners and respect: that one should never do to another what you wouldn't wish for yourself. — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
“Miss Manners hereby absolves everyone from feeling any embarrassment deliberately imposed by others.” — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
It doesn't change the way I am, but I do totally understand how you're looked at as a footballer, especially by children.… — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to… — Anne Sebba Copy Share Image
“The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad,—the more glaring and disgusting… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A Leaf That Is Supposed To Grow Is Full Of Wrinkles And Creases Before It Develops; If One Doesn't Have The Patience… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as… — James Thomas Fields Copy Share Image
How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest… — John Galsworthy 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
“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
Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners.… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.” — Geraldine Brooks 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
Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table… — Suzanne Collins 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
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
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“Making your own Netiquette is advanced internet use, but it's not that hard. It's all good. — David Chiles Copy Share Image
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Any guy I date has to have manners - you know, get the door. And he has to have confidence and be… — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners… — Bono 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
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