Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Too many people think that "good manners" are about subjugating yourself to others. Not true. Respect, and just as important, self-respect are… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one’s own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
“Who do hats think they are? They contribute nothing to society, and don't even display basic manners. Has a hat ever held… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“If "Manners maketh man," as someone said Then he's the hero of the day It takes a man to suffer ignorance and… — Sting Copy Share Image
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word ... courteous… — William A. Clark Copy Share Image
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Come, come," I said. "You may be a lord someday, but you aren't one yet. No need for the courtly manners, and… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“We’re three of a kind—you, me and her.” Her hand found its way to her chest. “But where are my manners? I’m… — Robert J. Crane Copy Share Image
'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
“People who confuse social behavior with manners naturally think of it as something that can be donned and doffed, a fashion that… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
I get more disgusted with men all the time - particularly traveling Americans. They start out on a trip to Europe and… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be… — Michelle Sagara Copy Share Image
Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
![“Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.” quote by Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1e7/oscar-wilde-16_different_cecily-this-is-no-time-for-wearing-the-s_1461245.jpg)
![“Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Belive that on occasion that much death can become tedious.” quote by Michelle Sagara](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/457/michelle-sagara-17163_belive_manners-are-severly-underappreciated-in_1867935.png)
