Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere. — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We bow to each other, Harry, Come, the niceties must be observed… Dumbledore would like you to show manners… Bow to death,… — Voldemort Copy Share Image
Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“But also be careful to not hit with words, For sometimes that hurts worse each time it occurs.” — Sherrill S. Cannon Copy Share Image
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
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
The '90s were a time when not just the movie business, but every aspect of American life, became a lot more corporate.… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Till now, I could not have supposed it possible to be mistaken as to a girl's being out or not. A girl… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I told them he'd be able to get you to go out." Rianne folded her winnings and tucked the bills into her… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
