Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere. — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude. — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule… — Joseph R. Bartlett Copy Share Image
As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
If you're a gentleman you would hold the door open for anyone not just lady's it's called manners. — Rajat Dogra Copy Share Image
'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. — Moshe Katsav Copy Share Image
Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image