History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said:… — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
“Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying… — Mommy Moo Moo Copy Share Image
He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of… — Willa Sibert Cather Copy Share Image
Honor has to say "please" and "thank you." Manners are really important. — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that. — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
No one has ever been offended by someone with good manners and courteous behaviour. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
“You cannot escape that you are a woman,” she began. “I wish I could,” Firekeeper muttered, but Elise continued as if she… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with… — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
