“Alexia had, in part, compensated for a lack of soul through the liberal application of manners. This was rather like donning an… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“This is the problem with even lesser demons. They come to your doorstep in velvet coats and polished shoes. They tip their… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't… — Raymond Chandler 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
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I… — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
“Nice is a little word with a big meaning. How many times did your mother say, "Just be nice?" It's basic manners,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“There’s your first mistake, Brawley. Don’t let the good-boy manners and button-down fool you. I’m an Irish kid from Queens. You’ve got… — Santino Hassell Copy Share Image
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities,… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
“When I am alone, my table manners are rather piggish, but i suppose that's because I don't eat at a table, I… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“The children nodded in agreement, and rose from the table. Leaving their dirty breakfast dishes behind, which is not a good thing… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“it was a point of good manners not to sit with a clique of the same friends all the time, and it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your… — Kate Simon Copy Share Image
A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
