My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners. — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing… — Tom Taylor Copy Share Image
“God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?” — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Picking on people is not my sort of humour, but I think there's quite a lot of it around. We're slowly turning… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Realizing his ill manners, Thomas bowed at the waist, his eyes never leaving hers. “My name is Thomas Watson.” She made a… — Amber Lynn Perry Copy Share Image
Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams of starting a Martha Stewart magazine… — Jerry Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a… — Alicia Markova Copy Share Image
Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner couldn't feel… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Wasting talent is a sin. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image