“A gentleman holds my hand. A man pulls my hair. A soulmate will do both.” — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Dwarf mothers didn’t handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were… — Erik Bundy Copy Share Image
Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“He was an arsehole like that. It was entirely because of good manners that I didn't punch him in the face.” — Kuansiew Copy Share Image
Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“My father(Imam Al-Baqir (as)) refined my manners by three statements. He said to me 'O son! A man who befriends a vile… — Imam Al-Saqid Copy Share Image
What? Was he raised in a barn? Didn’t he ever learn how to close a door? Amateur shape-shifters…No manners whatsoever.” – Sasha… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“We eventually come to a one-story house that looks as though it's on its way to becoming one with the forest surrounding… — Travis Thrasher Copy Share Image
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them.… — Henry Alford 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
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
