God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality). — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“We call them taxis where I come from. And bookstores.” God, he was stuffy. “We call them manners where I come from,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“It’s just good manners. You don’t take your fight to a party. It’s no one else’s business.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and… — Jean Ferris Copy Share Image
People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
In the 50s and 60s, kids were taught how to shake hands. They were taught how to have manners. There needs to… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“[I]t's not enough to be right. I think you have to be generous. It's not enough to be logical. You have to… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into… — Dorian Cox Copy Share Image
The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. — Bobby Bowden Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to step away from the game. I've had to do that in different manners in my career. — Diana Taurasi Copy Share Image
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. — Stanley Walker Copy Share Image
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go… — Suzy Parker Copy Share Image
My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right… — Naseem Hamed Copy Share Image
“It was surely the height of bad manners to get an erection with her cuddling against me.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business. — Virginia Cary Hudson Copy Share Image
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
To comprehend every culture has its own manners is general knowledge. Realizing they are all justifiable is intelligence — Juju Copy Share Image
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. — William Tenn Copy Share Image
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“I strive everyday to be a great parent so my kids can be better people when they move out into the world… — Angela Vallely Copy Share Image
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
![“In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his…” quote by James Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f19/james-boswell-7136_brighter_in-comparing-these-two-writers-he-samuel_445768.jpg)
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