Manners Quotes · Page 24

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

— William Shakespeare

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

— Sydney Smith

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Now a days beauty is doesn't matter because some of them they like their good character,,not physical attraction..

— Mariane Corbito

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life...

— Barbara Tuchman

I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside…

— Jacob Epstein

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe…

— June Jordan

I mean, I think everything I do kinda follows a theme. I only write about a couple of things like some sort…

— Everlast

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It…

— Colum McCann

The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people…

— Judith Martin

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were…

— Ruth Gordon

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He…

— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's…

— George Lucas

“Good manners forced her to say, somewhat grudgingly, "Your boots are very nice." He grinned and regarded his footwear, which, though old,…

— Julia Quinn

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of…

— Samuel Adams

Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know…

— Henry Ford

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner…

— Emily Post

Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and…

— Charles Spurgeon

There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to…

— Christopher Paolini

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy…

— Roger Ascham

“Use social media for good and lift others up, not tear them down. Stay on the high road. Keep your peace.”

— Germany Kent

“She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had…

— Ali Smith

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

— John Irving

There are somethings that money just cannot buy. like manners, morals and integrity…

— Anonymous

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

— Lord Chesterfield

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the…

— Jonathan Swift

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.

— Frederick Lenz

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean…

— John Burns

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

— Anonymous

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I dont like it when people dont hold the door. I dont know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

— Taylor Schilling

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

— Evelyn Waugh

I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

— Taylor Schilling