it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know she’s rather plain, but every girl has a right to conceal that fact from people who haven’t seen her.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Manners, you see, come down to a single principle: talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“If you forget your manners, you can always borrow mine. I won't be using them.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“This is the problem with even lesser demons. They come to your doorstep in velvet coats and polished shoes. They tip their… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“When I am alone, my table manners are rather piggish, but i suppose that's because I don't eat at a table, I… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities,… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“There’s your first mistake, Brawley. Don’t let the good-boy manners and button-down fool you. I’m an Irish kid from Queens. You’ve got… — Santino Hassell Copy Share Image
Fathers are very, very important in building the foundations and self-esteem of children. For me, the way that I was raised, consideration,… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think that one not only has to make demands on the established group, but one also has to make demands on… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
“Politeness must be cultivated, for the promptings of nature are eminently selfish, and courtesy and good-breeding are only attainable by effort and… — Arthur Martine Copy Share Image
Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
When we no longer hold people responsible for their choices, civility and common sense will be diminished. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
It's not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It's an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.” — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
