“It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.” — Maralee McKee Copy Share Image
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. — Ovid Copy Share Image
So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Words spoken with good manners have reached a lot more hearts than words spoken sternly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“It's good netiquette to look for every opportunity to compliment others online. — David Chiles Copy Share Image
“Sydney tried — sometimes he really tried — but his default mindset didn’t have those kinds of manners. What he really meant… — Rebecca McKinsey Copy Share Image
A queue doesn't necessarily imply order and good manners among our fellow men. Usually it's just down to poor organisation, under-staffing and… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast… — Moon Unit Zappa Copy Share Image
“I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home. — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
“No. Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among… — John Denham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as… — James Thomas Fields Copy Share Image
How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
A Leaf That Is Supposed To Grow Is Full Of Wrinkles And Creases Before It Develops; If One Doesn't Have The Patience… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad,—the more glaring and disgusting… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It doesn't change the way I am, but I do totally understand how you're looked at as a footballer, especially by children.… — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to… — Anne Sebba Copy Share Image
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Legendary manners there, Karim,” she commented, her voice calm. “Your mother teach you?” “I was taught the advantage of surprise,” he responded… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its… — Wyndham Lewis 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
No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight… — Anonymous 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
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
