The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Good manners are the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“In all ranks and all stations of life, how strangely characters and manners differ!” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
Do not feel ashamed if the amount of charity is small because to refuse the needy is an act of greater shame. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically,… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able… — Ant Middleton Copy Share Image
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
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