The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 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
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude. — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
“There is an old German fable about porcupines who need to huddle together for warmth, but are in danger of hurting each… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One of the few things I like about Bill Clinton is that he has very good manners. If his momma were still… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to… — Jamie Whyte 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
“To be a good man needed a highly smartness in nowsday” — Giharu Si Perempuan Gunung Copy Share Image
