Manners Quotes · Page 21

“Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners.”

— Sigmund Freud

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

— Patricia Briggs

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

— Algernon Sidney

“Having manners is the sweet scent that calls you to the rose.”

— Bert McCoy

“Amber Regina Elisa Davis, mind your manners,” Mom warned.”

— A.E. Davis

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

— Benjamin Franklin

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

— Joseph Cook

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

— Samuel Johnson

“The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.”

— Maralee McKee

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

— Lord Acton

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you.…

— John Boyne

“He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.”

— Anne Enright

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

— Cassandra Clare

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

— William Allen White

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

— Walt Whitman

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's…

— Mary Elizabeth Clark

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.…

— Steve Allen

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be…

— Hilary Mantel

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended…

— Edmund Burke

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like…

— Samuel Johnson

Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no…

— Thomas Carlyle

I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace,…

— Tim Gunn

Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that…

— Florence King

I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles.…

— Sue Grafton

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that…

— Alexander Calder

Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good…

— David Hume

“What a nice thing to say," Mom said, standing up a little straighter, as if she'd been watered. Marlena's manners were unpracticed,…

— Julie Buntin

“One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are only the expression of happy ideas. There’s a whole…

— Judith Martin

“the best alternative to good manners is fast reflexes.”

— Anonymous

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

— Richard Whately

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

— Malcolm Forbes

“OUr past doesn't define us. It prepares us.”

— Maralee McKee

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

— Fiona Bruce

Good manners are made up of letting people tell you what you already know.

— Vikrant Parsai

I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.

— Lemmy

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

— Steven Brust