Good manners are made up of letting people tell you what you already know. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. — Roger Ascham 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
“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But also be careful to not hit with words, For sometimes that hurts worse each time it occurs.” — Sherrill S. Cannon Copy Share Image
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others. — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Thank goodness I was brought up with the grounding of my parents, and taught manners. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them. — David Riesman Copy Share Image
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far… — Hilari Bell Copy Share Image
Manners have been somewhatcynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities,… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy 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
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“HIGGINS [*snatching a chocolate cream from the piano, his eyes suddenly beginning to twinkle with mischief*] Have some chocolates, Eliza. LIZA [*halting,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“He then bespattered the youth with abundance of that language which passes between country gentleman who embrace opposite sides of the question;… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image