Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals,” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
“It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.” — Barbara Cameron Copy Share Image
“When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.” — John Patrick Hickey Copy Share Image
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy.… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by… — Mortimer Collins Copy Share Image
“We're fighting the puerile disgustingness of the Disgusting Dimension and trying to furnish it with joy, refinement and civility. Its an ongoing… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
“In years gone by, particularly in the East and the South, ladies would attend charm school to learn how to elegantly stand,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves.… — Moliere 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
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
“It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.” — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
