If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. — Bobby Bowden 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
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will… — Kate Reardon 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
“Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess Should teach them the poor to despise; For 'tis good manners, and not… — Jane Taylor Copy Share Image
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and… — Jean Ferris Copy Share Image
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“He was a good guy, my old man: simple, old-fashioned. Physically, he was built like a feather-weight, and he wore these thick,… — Ozzy Osbourne 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
The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
It doesn't change the way I am, but I do totally understand how you're looked at as a footballer, especially by children.… — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
“I should add, however, by way of justification of French politeness, that our fellow-countrymen are, when travelling, models of good manners in… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.” — Barbara Cameron Copy Share Image
When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and… — Honore de Balzac 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
“Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done.… — Mark Twain 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
“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor… — Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. — Amy Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“Your gold is your religion , your adornment is your moral attitude , and your wealth is your good manners .” — Aidh bin Abdullah Al-Qarni Copy Share Image
“Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm… — Murdoc Niccals Copy Share Image
“ASK YOURSELF: Are you presenting yourself in the best of all lights, online and off, and demonstrating the dignity of good manners?… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“The elegance of etiquette is a timeless expression of class which transcends social status, demographics, educational level, and ethnicity. Good manners say… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
My family would soon tell me if I was getting above my station. I love what I do, I love my job,… — Kerry Ellis Copy Share Image
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
