The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“He was an arsehole like that. It was entirely because of good manners that I didn't punch him in the face.” — Kuansiew Copy Share Image
Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
There are few things more American than falling back on the language of race when what we're really talking about is class… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners. In twenty years, they’d have country houses and children with pretentious literary names and tennis… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Your Worst Behavior Should Be Reserved For The Person Who Loves You The Most Because Somehow, No Matter What You Do.. That… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There's a lot of time when skaters think they know everything because they've seen videos of you, and seen you on TV… — Mike Vallely Copy Share Image
“Till now, I could not have supposed it possible to be mistaken as to a girl's being out or not. A girl… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“Which makes his good manners the more valuable. The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Wasting talent is a sin. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
“She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner couldn't feel… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Dwarf mothers didn’t handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were… — Erik Bundy Copy Share Image
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Great appearance and manners may help to cure your insecurities in the public place.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Flannery O'Connor is my creative hero. I think she's the greatest American writer. Her book, 'Mystery and Manners,' is my creative bible. — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune… — Noel Monk Copy Share Image
