Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.” — T. A. Miles Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Unless Your Name Is GOOGLE, Stop Acting You Fucking Know Everything... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal,… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth; To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance; To-morrow, the… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour — Hugh Massingberd Copy Share Image
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image