Manners Quotes · Page 31

Be good to your enemies, it drives them crazy ;)

— Anas

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far…

— Hilari Bell

I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had…

— Joan Didion

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

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

If I'm receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting…

— Caroline Polachek

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy…

— Roger Ascham

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

— Loretta Young

I love men's clothes, but that doesn't make me a weirdo.

— Margaux Hemingway

Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners... I know some of the most beautiful women, and…

— Melissa McCarthy

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the…

— Jeremy Collier

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

— Rumi

I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles.…

— Sue Grafton

Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet…

— Emily Post

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing;…

— Lord Chesterfield

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

— Virginia Cary Hudson

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

— E. M. Forster

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

— Rosalind Wiseman

I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and…

— Georgette Heyer

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

— Bill Kelly

All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist…

— Akbar Ganji

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

— Bill Vaughan

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

— Stephen Bayley