“Do not confuse manners for kindness. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts.” — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
My grandmother used to teach me that it's bad manners to invite yourself to somebody's house. — Andrey Arshavin Copy Share Image
There are some things that money just can't buy. Like manners, morals and integrity. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids. — Oliver Hudson Copy Share Image
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses. — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To use bad taste, you have to know the rules of good taste. I've always thanked my mother for that. She taught… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“DEAR MISS MANNERS: I a tired of being treated like a child. My father says it's because I am a child--I am… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Human beings everywhere in the world are affected by the global media now. Still, what I have noticed in the east Asia,… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.” — Moazzam Shaikh Copy Share Image
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude. — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is… — Helen Lawrenson Copy Share Image
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
No one has ever been offended by someone with good manners and courteous behaviour. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“ “Good manners are free, but forgetting them often costs you dearly.” -Traditional Southern Wisdom” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
She says I am not fair, that I lack manners; She calls me proud, and that she could not love me, Were… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
