Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said:… — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“Please stop,” I said politely—he was that big. One should always mind one’s manners around big things.” — Lish McBride Copy Share Image
It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves.… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they… — Margaret Fishback Copy Share Image
The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro;… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I should add, however, by way of justification of French politeness, that our fellow-countrymen are, when travelling, models of good manners in… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
“You don't get to be the president of anything if you have bad manners.” — Daven Anderson Copy Share Image
“Just because they want to kill her is no reason to forget her manners.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
