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
Words spoken with good manners have reached a lot more hearts than words spoken sternly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“It's good netiquette to look for every opportunity to compliment others online. — David Chiles Copy Share Image
When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home. — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“Alexia had, in part, compensated for a lack of soul through the liberal application of manners. This was rather like donning an… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Relax!” “Don’t go to so much trouble!” “Why don’t you use plastic glasses?” “Take off your jacket!” “Why don’t you use paper… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In the older view the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead,… — Joseph Campbell 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
The awkward moment when you're eating dinner at someone else's house and you don't like the food, but you have to pretend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before. — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
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
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 detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same as courage. It's closer to bad manners than to courage. [...] if you're going to be a writer, you basically have to say, 'this is just who I am […]'. There's a certain…” quote by Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/692/lorrie-moore-870_art_the-detachment-of-the-artist-is-kind-of_1687843.png)
