Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and… — Robert Treat Paine Copy Share Image
I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of… — Michelle Sagara Copy Share Image
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want… — Billy Carter Copy Share Image
Nothing will be heavier on the Day of Resurrection in the scale of a believer than good manners. Allah hates one who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy.… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I told them he'd be able to get you to go out." Rianne folded her winnings and tucked the bills into her… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Till now, I could not have supposed it possible to be mistaken as to a girl's being out or not. A girl… — Jane Austen 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
You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying… — Mommy Moo Moo Copy Share Image
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Effective internet communication is contact that is acted upon in a good manner.” — David Chiles Copy Share Image
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
We Can Be Like Mc Donalds and Burger King; I'll Have It My Way, And You'll Be Lovin' It. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it… — 1779 The Town and Country Magazine. vol. 11 Copy Share Image
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others. — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Nimewapa watoto wangu kila kitu katika maisha isipokuwa umaskini. Lakini bado wamenishinda.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image