Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Money doesn't mean that you are educated, have manners, class or even have good hygiene. All it means is . . . you have money! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“I believe very strongly in kindness, in good manners, in treating people with equanimity and a sense of humour and all those… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners — Hannibal Copy Share Image
Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen are a dying breed. Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.” — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think being able to teach your children manners and to be respectful is one thing that you can do regardless to… — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“We eventually come to a one-story house that looks as though it's on its way to becoming one with the forest surrounding… — Travis Thrasher Copy Share Image
Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners.… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“HIGGINS [*snatching a chocolate cream from the piano, his eyes suddenly beginning to twinkle with mischief*] Have some chocolates, Eliza. LIZA [*halting,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in manners and respect: that one should never do to another what you wouldn't wish for yourself. — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
“In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Miss Manners hereby absolves everyone from feeling any embarrassment deliberately imposed by others.” — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
A man's own good breeding ishis best security against other people's ill-manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and… — Gerald F. Lieberman Copy Share Image
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express… — Horace Copy Share Image
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