When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude. — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.” — Moazzam Shaikh Copy Share Image
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if… — Rossana Condoleo 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
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“He was an arsehole like that. It was entirely because of good manners that I didn't punch him in the face.” — Kuansiew Copy Share Image
Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically,… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Good manners are the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that. — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. — Bill Kelly Copy Share Image
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
