“manners don’t cost anything. Nothing can be lost by using them, but much can be gained,” — Dean Cadman Copy Share Image
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux. — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Me being mean: Can you shut the fuck up? Me being nice: Can you please shut the fuck up? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
YES - I have good manners. YES - I show others respect YES - I help a stranger in need. I do… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary… — William John Wills Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Be a person that others will look for your posts daily because they know you will encourage them. Be the positive one… — John Patrick Hickey Copy Share Image
“We have rules One-Ear." The man smiled faintly at Mrs. Francis. "Ladies are not to be hacked apart with swords. It reflects… — Sean Cullen Copy Share Image
If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“You cannot escape that you are a woman,” she began. “I wish I could,” Firekeeper muttered, but Elise continued as if she… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." . . . Forgive him, he has no manners." I… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leapt them over. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Keep Correcting Your Little Mistakes!., Because Nobody Slips Down By Hills, But Just Slips By Little Stones... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Full bellies breed gentle manners. A pinch of famine makes monsters.(Bringing up the bodies,pg 36)” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.” — Maralee McKee Copy Share Image
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
That Awkward Moment When You Put Finger In Your Nose and Notice Someone Is Watching You! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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