“If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners.” — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good manners are made up of letting people tell you what you already know. — Vikrant Parsai 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 most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities,… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
“it was a point of good manners not to sit with a clique of the same friends all the time, and it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I… — Mary Doria Russell 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
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I… — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them.… — Henry Alford 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
I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria: 1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others. — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Common decency, good manners, kindness and hard work were treated as peculiarities” — Ruth Hogan Copy Share Image
