When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude. — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is… — Helen Lawrenson Copy Share Image
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids. — Oliver Hudson Copy Share Image
There are some things that money just can't buy. Like manners, morals and integrity. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
My grandmother used to teach me that it's bad manners to invite yourself to somebody's house. — Andrey Arshavin Copy Share Image
Fight for friends. Joyful trips. Examination fever. Suspense of results. Making parodies of teachers. Joking with juniors. Carefree laughters. Gossips about affairs.… — Aldyna Threesya Copy Share Image
It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
So long as you minded your manners and kept your weapons concealed, they let you enter and leave in peace. Those who… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I am not saying thank you or someone checking their phone while talking to you, it seems our manners are getting worse!… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“And as is often the case, the people who would benefit the most from reading a book like this are the ones… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
The '90s were a time when not just the movie business, but every aspect of American life, became a lot more corporate.… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“What are you? Do you know? What you are is you’re always trying to smooth everything over. What you are is always… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“He then bespattered the youth with abundance of that language which passes between country gentleman who embrace opposite sides of the question;… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses. — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.” — Moazzam Shaikh Copy Share Image
The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“ “Good manners are free, but forgetting them often costs you dearly.” -Traditional Southern Wisdom” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
She says I am not fair, that I lack manners; She calls me proud, and that she could not love me, Were… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
No one has ever been offended by someone with good manners and courteous behaviour. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.” — Maralee McKee Copy Share Image
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
![“You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/953/fanny-burney-7403_devil_you-have-sensible-women-here-in-england_2177257.jpg)
![“The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole -- besides being an homme d'action [man of action] -- that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a…” quote by Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e35/karl-marx-399_action_the-most-interesting-acquaintanceship-i_2891880.jpg)
