“Control thy lingo and mind thy demeanor in synonymy with the social etiquette,” — Mukesh Kwatra Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners. — Anna Paskevska Copy Share Image
Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There's a real intense thing about manners in the South, a real prescribed way to be a woman. — Mary Wiseman Copy Share Image
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence and… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“She took Sunny's coat off, and then her own, and dropped them both on the floor. Normally, of course, one should hang… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.' I'd send her a card alright.… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Lack of etiquette and manners is a huge turn off. Men who don't behave decently are irritating. Also, I don't like guys… — Shraddha Kapoor Copy Share Image
Sorry,” she said, “I got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know.” “Explain… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I would like to fly in a professional like manners one of the big airliners. I have to made my mind which… — Zacarias Moussaoui Copy Share Image
I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“It is considered an honor to be…plucked from the crowd, so to speak. There are fine families in the district who have… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connexion with the capital of the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
“We call them taxis where I come from. And bookstores.” God, he was stuffy. “We call them manners where I come from,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. — Bobby Bowden Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to step away from the game. I've had to do that in different manners in my career. — Diana Taurasi Copy Share Image
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“It’s just good manners. You don’t take your fight to a party. It’s no one else’s business.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
There are somethings that money just cannot buy. like manners, morals and integrity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do. — John Irving Copy Share Image
