This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women… — Kathy Lette Copy Share Image
I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in manners and respect: that one should never do to another what you wouldn't wish for yourself. — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right… — Naseem Hamed Copy Share Image
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
