Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder… — Arthur Wimperis Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now. — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege. — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one’s own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women… — Kathy Lette Copy Share Image
Too many people think that "good manners" are about subjugating yourself to others. Not true. Respect, and just as important, self-respect are… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
“You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It has always been like that with changes. In 1913, we established divorce as a right for women in Uruguay. You know… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
“Arthur, you mustn’t feel that I am rude when I say this. You must remember that I have been away in strange… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“For more than forty years, Judith Martin has inspired the world with advice on etiquette excellence, proper behavior, and codes of conduct… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder… — William Penn Copy Share Image
When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life... — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Use social media for good and lift others up, not tear them down. Stay on the high road. Keep your peace.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Now a days beauty is doesn't matter because some of them they like their good character,,not physical attraction.. — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
There are some things that money just cannot buy, like manners, morals and intelligence. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. — Joy Baluch Copy Share Image
“Manners are for those who have neither beauty or talent but want people to like them despite their lack of attractions” — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and… — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying… — Adriana Lima Copy Share Image
True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image