I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. — Joy Baluch Copy Share Image
as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I mean, I think everything I do kinda follows a theme. I only write about a couple of things like some sort… — Everlast Copy Share Image
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time,… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners. — Letitia Baldrige Copy Share Image
Roxy Music' and 'For Your Pleasure,' those exercises in learning and unlearning of accent and manners, are Pop's equivalent of 'The Talented… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be… — Niccolo Machiavelli 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
