The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.” — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Remember To Treat People Like Its The Last Time....You Are Going To See Them Because It Might Be Your Last Day Or… — Out Spoken Copy Share Image
They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Too many people think that "good manners" are about subjugating yourself to others. Not true. Respect, and just as important, self-respect are… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about the images of pornography and how much they dealt with close-up, when a person is at their… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically,… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Legendary manners there, Karim,” she commented, her voice calm. “Your mother teach you?” “I was taught the advantage of surprise,” he responded… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
