The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire 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
I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Remember To Treat People Like Its The Last Time…You Are Going To See Them Because It Might Be Your Last Day Or… — Out Spoken Copy Share Image
“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy;… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to… — Jamie Whyte Copy Share Image
“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners,… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Copy Share Image
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. — Lillian Gish Copy Share Image
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Traffic-calming areas work because they assume courtesy, not bad manners. — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image