Good manners Quotes

Good manners are a sign of strength.

— Dick Francis

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

— Elvis Costello

Good manners require space and time.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

— Mason Cooley

It is not good manners …..

— Vikrant Parsai

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

— E. W. Howe

Where there are no women there are no good manners

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

— Julia McNair Wright

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business.

— Emily Post

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

— Emily Post

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

— Anonymous

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

— Mark Twain

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady,

— Anonymous

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

— Bennett Cerf

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

— Christopher Morley

Good manners are the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others.

— Alice Miller

To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which…

— Vikrant Parsai

“He was an arsehole like that. It was entirely because of good manners that I didn't punch him in the face.”

— Kuansiew

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's…

— Terry Wogan

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

“Modesty is a state of the heart. It veils the tongue. It clothes us in good manners. It envelops us with the…

— T.J. Bowes

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a…

— Gouverneur Morris

Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the…

— Tom Ford

“Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you…

— Germany Kent

“Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost--good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies any more, and…

— John Steinbeck

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion,…

— Guru Nanak

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this…

— David Rakoff

Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…

— Roger Scruton

Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that…

— Judith McNaught

A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general…

— John Adams

“Good manners forced her to say, somewhat grudgingly, "Your boots are very nice." He grinned and regarded his footwear, which, though old,…

— Julia Quinn

Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect…

— P. M. Forni

“Grits know when enough is enough. Having good manners doesn’t mean you should allow others to push you around. A Southern girl…

— Deborah Ford

Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than…

— Norman Tebbit

Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners.…

— Larry McMurtry

I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had…

— Joan Didion

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we…

— June Jordan