I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Control thy lingo and mind thy demeanor in synonymy with the social etiquette,” — Mukesh Kwatra Copy Share Image
Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Manners are for those who have neither beauty or talent but want people to like them despite their lack of attractions” — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
There are some things that money just cannot buy, like manners, morals and intelligence. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. — Joy Baluch Copy Share Image
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“ASK YOURSELF: Are you presenting yourself in the best of all lights, online and off, and demonstrating the dignity of good manners?… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Your Self Image Is Your Pattern!.. Every Thought Has An Activity Visualized. Every Activity Belongs To A Pattern. You Identify With Your… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Roxy Music' and 'For Your Pleasure,' those exercises in learning and unlearning of accent and manners, are Pop's equivalent of 'The Talented… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm… — Murdoc Niccals Copy Share Image
I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Miss Manners’ mother always told her to travel either first or third class, but never second, when crossing. (Not crossing class lines,… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard 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
Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying… — Adriana Lima Copy Share Image
Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and… — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence and… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There's a real intense thing about manners in the South, a real prescribed way to be a woman. — Mary Wiseman Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners. — Anna Paskevska 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
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege. — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder… — Arthur Wimperis Copy Share Image