“It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals,” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere. — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
“All the important roles shortly boiled down to one: remember your with other people; show some consideration.” — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I would paint myself as a liberal parent. But I am also a strict disciplinarian. I insist on good behaviour and bloody… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
When You Develop The Ability To Listen To Anything Without Losing Your Temper Or Self-Confidence, It Means That You Have Become Well-Mannered… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“This is the problem with even lesser demons. They come to your doorstep in velvet coats and polished shoes. They tip their… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your… — Kate Simon 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
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“You cannot escape that you are a woman,” she began. “I wish I could,” Firekeeper muttered, but Elise continued as if she… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Till now, I could not have supposed it possible to be mistaken as to a girl's being out or not. A girl… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
