On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us… — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my… — Ann-Margret Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places,… — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess Should teach them the poor to despise; For 'tis good manners, and not… — Jane Taylor Copy Share Image
England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Miss Manners remembers who should be introduced to whom, but then she also remembers the difference between “who” and “whom.” The formula… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams of starting a Martha Stewart magazine… — Jerry Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a… — Alicia Markova Copy Share Image
“In order to be polite, it is necessary to have something to give. Politeness is the art of doing to others the… — Astolphe de Custine Copy Share Image
“Realizing his ill manners, Thomas bowed at the waist, his eyes never leaving hers. “My name is Thomas Watson.” She made a… — Amber Lynn Perry Copy Share Image
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour — Hugh Massingberd Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, chivalry seems to be on the decline, but let's hope that manners can remain important. I, for one, will certainly be… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Song Joong-ki is known for his sincerity and manners. He is younger than me, but I thought I learned many things from… — Song Hye-kyo Copy Share Image
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There's something about the British that we go for someone who seems nice and has good manners and seems at ease thanks… — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. — Moshe Katsav Copy Share Image
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Of course mama has taught us all to use our manners. Though there are times that are appropriate for you to be… — Epifania Savea Copy Share Image
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect. — Rumi Copy Share Image
When approaching me in public, do not be rude. Say please. Introduce yourself. Have manners. Be considerate. Otherwise you'll be disappointed. — CM Punk Copy Share Image
