Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. — William Tenn Copy Share Image
My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There are some things that money just can't buy. Like manners, morals and integrity. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable 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
Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want… — Billy Carter Copy Share Image
“We have rules One-Ear." The man smiled faintly at Mrs. Francis. "Ladies are not to be hacked apart with swords. It reflects… — Sean Cullen 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
Screaming and yelling at others to get work done is the wrong way of doing things. Learn to communicate by being respectful… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
“I should add, however, by way of justification of French politeness, that our fellow-countrymen are, when travelling, models of good manners in… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Teamwork is good netiquette. All good users can work together to accomplish goals. — David Chiles Copy Share Image
Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
