“It's the height of bad manners to sleep with somebody less than three times.” — Mark Boxer Copy Share Image
“You can't demand that other people have manners. You can hope it, though.” — A.S. King Copy Share Image
“Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies. The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable… — Ann Barrett Batson Copy Share Image
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express… — Horace Copy Share Image
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“For manners, whether in the court or at the dinner table, are simply love in the little things, love in the trifles.” — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and… — Gerald F. Lieberman Copy Share Image
The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
“Being popular doesn’t always win spiritual change. Christ didn’t pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Miss Manners corrects only upon request. Then she does it from a distance, with no names attached, and no personal relationship, however… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
The world does not have a voice of its own. It can't tell you what it wants, what it needs. But it's… — Bray Wyatt Copy Share Image
All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Just because they want to kill her is no reason to forget her manners.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
