I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it… — 1779 The Town and Country Magazine. vol. 11 Copy Share Image
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“manners don’t cost anything. Nothing can be lost by using them, but much can be gained,” — Dean Cadman Copy Share Image
“Nimewapa watoto wangu kila kitu katika maisha isipokuwa umaskini. Lakini bado wamenishinda.” — Enock Maregesi 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
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
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
Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others. — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux. — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Me being mean: Can you shut the fuck up? Me being nice: Can you please shut the fuck up? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Full bellies breed gentle manners. A pinch of famine makes monsters.(Bringing up the bodies,pg 36)” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leapt them over. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Keep Correcting Your Little Mistakes!., Because Nobody Slips Down By Hills, But Just Slips By Little Stones... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." . . . Forgive him, he has no manners." I… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
That Awkward Moment When You Put Finger In Your Nose and Notice Someone Is Watching You! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The awkward moment when you're eating dinner at someone else's house and you don't like the food, but you have to pretend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
