Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Maturity doesn't mean age; it means sensitivity, manners, and how you react. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both. — Lord Chesterfield 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
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Any guy I date has to have manners - you know, get the door. And he has to have confidence and be… — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are. — Alice Munro 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
It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far… — Hilari Bell Copy Share Image
What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion.… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them.… — Henry Alford Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
