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
“Nimewapa watoto wangu kila kitu katika maisha isipokuwa umaskini. Lakini bado wamenishinda.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying… — Adriana Lima Copy Share Image
To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby. "What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others. — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of… — John Ruskin 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
I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man… — William Cowper 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
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share… — Winston Churchill 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
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
