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
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
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Picking on people is not my sort of humour, but I think there's quite a lot of it around. We're slowly turning… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Nice is a little word with a big meaning. How many times did your mother say, "Just be nice?" It's basic manners,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I… — Bill Kaulitz 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite… — E. M. Forster 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
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
such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
“Francis Bacon somewhere remarks that politeness veils vice just as dress masks wrinkles.” — John Doran Copy Share Image
I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still… — Mario Balotelli Copy Share Image
One of the few things I like about Bill Clinton is that he has very good manners. If his momma were still… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“I had never come across a talking cat before, but good manners, as my father used to say, cost nothing.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
