Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners. — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality). — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
I dont like it when people dont hold the door. I dont know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners. — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“If "Manners maketh man," as someone said Then he's the hero of the day It takes a man to suffer ignorance and… — Sting Copy Share Image
“Who do hats think they are? They contribute nothing to society, and don't even display basic manners. Has a hat ever held… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I didn't ask to see you. You sent for me. I don't mind your ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world;… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“He thinned his eyes into razor slits and took a step toward Constance Brandley. “Let us be clear, madam. ‘Company’ implies one… — Christi Caldwell Copy Share Image
They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If you're a gentleman you would hold the door open for anyone not just lady's it's called manners. — Rajat Dogra Copy Share Image
If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid. - — Eccles David Copy Share Image
“Teamwork is good netiquette. All good users can work together to accomplish goals. — David Chiles Copy Share Image
It's so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated. — David Beckham Copy Share Image
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. — Bill Kelly Copy Share Image
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.” — Fanny Jackson Coppin Copy Share Image
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This… — Mats Wilander Copy Share Image
