Manners Quotes · Page 4

Good manners are a part of good morals.

— Richard Whately

Civility is not simply about manners.

— Jim Leach

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

— Saint Basil

Forget love. Try good manners.

— Rebecca Wells

Manners are the ornament of action.

— Samuel Smiles

Manners are love in a cool climate.

— Quentin Crisp

The only perfect climate is bed.

— Frank Crowninshield

Beware of a man with manners.

— Eudora Welty

Money on my table,,bitches respect my table manners.

— Lil Wayne

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

— Alexander Pope

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

— Benjamin Franklin

How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.

— Malcolm Lowry

“Be shrewd and cunning without being rude and shunning”

— Robert Braathe

Good manners are made up of letting people tell you what you already know.

— Vikrant Parsai

I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.

— Lemmy

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

— Steven Brust

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not…

— Richard Whately

When You Develop The Ability To Listen To Anything Without Losing Your Temper Or Self-Confidence, It Means That You Have Become Well-Mannered…

— Pacifiersucker

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

— Patrick Kavanagh

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

— Mark Twain

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

— Abigail Adams

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat…

— William Lyon Phelps

Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.

— Thomas Lickona

Always treat others the way you want to be treated. One way or another, it will come back to you and so…

— Anas

For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese…

— Roman Coppola

You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to…

— Ilona Andrews

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting…

— Brooks Atkinson

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to…

— Samuel Smiles

“We eventually come to a one-story house that looks as though it's on its way to becoming one with the forest surrounding…

— Travis Thrasher

Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;…

— Matthew Arnold

The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --…

— Karl Marx

“He then bespattered the youth with abundance of that language which passes between country gentleman who embrace opposite sides of the question;…

— Henry Fielding

Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes…

— Fanny Kemble

The '90s were a time when not just the movie business, but every aspect of American life, became a lot more corporate.…

— Matthew Specktor

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the…

— Amor Towles