“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. — Lillian Gish Copy Share Image
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“If you forget your manners, you can always borrow mine. I won't be using them.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in… — Katherine Helmond Copy Share Image
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“He thinned his eyes into razor slits and took a step toward Constance Brandley. “Let us be clear, madam. ‘Company’ implies one… — Christi Caldwell Copy Share Image
“While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world;… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Traffic-calming areas work because they assume courtesy, not bad manners. — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Society is smoothed to that excess, that manners hardly differ more than dress — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
