“It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals,” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Thank goodness I was brought up with the grounding of my parents, and taught manners. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them. — David Riesman Copy Share Image
The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Yo Motherfucker when you were cleaning your ears, did you find a screw in there? — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I would paint myself as a liberal parent. But I am also a strict disciplinarian. I insist on good behaviour and bloody… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There’s your first mistake, Brawley. Don’t let the good-boy manners and button-down fool you. I’m an Irish kid from Queens. You’ve got… — Santino Hassell Copy Share Image
We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities,… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners — Ibn Rajab Copy Share Image
