“Just because they want to kill her is no reason to forget her manners.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and… — Gerald F. Lieberman Copy Share Image
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Growing up where I grew up, you think you're grown, but you're not. I come off very immature in my songs and… — Nav 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
Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“[I]t's not enough to be right. I think you have to be generous. It's not enough to be logical. You have to… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“The duke’s son and the pauper girl. I suppose as a couple we were the most interesting thing in view. I took… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
“In years gone by, particularly in the East and the South, ladies would attend charm school to learn how to elegantly stand,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
“It's the height of bad manners to sleep with somebody less than three times.” — Mark Boxer Copy Share Image
“You can't demand that other people have manners. You can hope it, though.” — A.S. King Copy Share Image
I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image