I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“For manners, whether in the court or at the dinner table, are simply love in the little things, love in the trifles.” — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God. — Habib Ali al-Jifri Copy Share Image
The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners. — Letitia Baldrige Copy Share Image
“Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies. The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable… — Ann Barrett Batson Copy Share Image
Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them.… — Henry Alford Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion.… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Any guy I date has to have manners - you know, get the door. And he has to have confidence and be… — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners… — Bono Copy Share Image
The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“Making your own Netiquette is advanced internet use, but it's not that hard. It's all good. — David Chiles Copy Share Image
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Neither 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
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule… — Joseph R. Bartlett Copy Share Image
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners. — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
