Manners Quotes · Page 11

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

— Henry David Thoreau

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

— Sydney Smith

Where there are no women there are no good manners

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

THE STREET RAISE ME BUT IN MY BAD MANNERS

— Jah Reign

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

— Colley Cibber

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

— Lillian Hellman

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic…

— Louisa May Alcott

Unfortunately, chivalry seems to be on the decline, but let's hope that manners can remain important. I, for one, will certainly be…

— Alexander Gilkes

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

— Hugh Massingberd

Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and…

— Laurence J. Peter

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.

— Anonymous

Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.

— Habib Ali al-Jifri

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

— Letitia Baldrige

It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention…

— Susan B. Anthony

“I don’t believe in texting while dining, sending one-word e-mails in lieu of formal thank-you cards, wearing shorts to the theater, or…

— Tim Gunn

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Growing up where I grew up, you think you're grown, but you're not. I come off very immature in my songs and…

— Nav

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you…

— Jonathan Swift

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government…

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

“[I]t's not enough to be right. I think you have to be generous. It's not enough to be logical. You have to…

— Jared Taylor

There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to…

— Christopher Paolini

In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between…

— James Boswell

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

— Gouverneur Morris

There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know…

— Henry Ford

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner…

— Emily Post

I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.

— Lemmy

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Your mood shouldn't dictate your manners.”

— Turcois Ominek

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

— Judith Martin

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

— Louise Fitzhugh

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

— E. W. Howe

Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe.

— Amy Poehler

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

— Alexander Woollcott