“Impeccable manners and courteous behavior are the hallmarks for healthy relations and human interaction.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn’t improve one’s manners!” — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so,… — Amy Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“The internet makes every online action memorable. Practice proper Netiquette for good memories. — David Chiles 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
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
I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full… — William Habington Copy Share Image
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
Some people take our kindness for weakness, then when we turn around and fuck them up, they say that we are bad… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“You say 'please' and 'thank you' to everyone, Evie. You almost bumped into a cocker spaniel being walked by his owner and… — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name… You… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Fathers are very, very important in building the foundations and self-esteem of children. For me, the way that I was raised, consideration,… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Better be dead than living without nobility. I'm an Englishman, a man of manners.” — Deepak Rana Copy Share Image
I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go… — Suzy Parker Copy Share Image
My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right… — Naseem Hamed Copy Share Image
Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business. — Virginia Cary Hudson Copy Share Image
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
To comprehend every culture has its own manners is general knowledge. Realizing they are all justifiable is intelligence — Juju Copy Share Image
“It was surely the height of bad manners to get an erection with her cuddling against me.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. — William Tenn Copy Share Image
“I strive everyday to be a great parent so my kids can be better people when they move out into the world… — Angela Vallely Copy Share Image
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. — Stanley Walker Copy Share Image
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
