There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Aline: "He's cute, for a Downworlder" Sebastian: "You'll have to forgive her; she has the face of an angel and the manners… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
I want to see what this baby's going to be into; how I can participate in his interests. You know, teach him… — Artem Chigvintsev Copy Share Image
I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go… — Suzy Parker Copy Share Image
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I think that one not only has to make demands on the established group, but one also has to make demands on… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. — Bernie Brillstein Copy Share Image
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
