To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Beautiful words make beautiful face, beautiful manners make beautiful life. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Copy Share Image
“What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Flannery O'Connor is my creative hero. I think she's the greatest American writer. Her book, 'Mystery and Manners,' is my creative bible. — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Great appearance and manners may help to cure your insecurities in the public place.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has… — Brené Brown 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
I heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
“HIGGINS [*snatching a chocolate cream from the piano, his eyes suddenly beginning to twinkle with mischief*] Have some chocolates, Eliza. LIZA [*halting,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion.… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. — Alfred Agache Copy Share Image
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
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