My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark? — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge... — Abdullah ibn Mubarak Copy Share Image
“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners. — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them… — Anonymous 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
Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good… — David Hume Copy Share Image
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“of the growth of self-restraint. A starting point for Elias’s analysis was medieval treatises on polite manners such as the book On… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Honor has to say "please" and "thank you." Manners are really important. — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
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