Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I didn't ask to see you. You sent for me. I don't mind your ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you.… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. — Christopher Morley 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
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image