Manners Quotes · Page 26

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that…

— James Purdy

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our…

— Benjamin Rush

When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later…

— Horace Walpole

Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards…

— Franz Boas

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

— Mary Wilson Little

There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go…

— Lore Segal

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

— Samuel Johnson

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of…

— Danny Boyle

Any guy I date has to have manners - you know, get the door. And he has to have confidence and be…

— Molly Sims

“She already told me that she doesn't have to be nice, so why do I? Because my mother raised me right? That's…

— Sheryl J. Anderson

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is…

— Lord Chesterfield

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was…

— Tallulah Bankhead

Good manners are a sign of strength.

— Dick Francis

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

— Rita Mae Brown

You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without…

— Lord Chesterfield

[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the…

— Elaine Dundy

Traffic-calming areas work because they assume courtesy, not bad manners.

— Maureen Lipman

You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If…

— Daniel Finkelstein

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and…

— Oscar Wilde

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

— Molly Ivins

“Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has…

— Brené Brown

Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick…

— Judith Martin

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express…

— Horace

Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than…

— Norman Tebbit