To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. — Amy Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.” — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Come, come," I said. "You may be a lord someday, but you aren't one yet. No need for the courtly manners, and… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word ... courteous… — William A. Clark Copy Share Image
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'? — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you.… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. — Bernie Brillstein Copy Share Image
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“All manners are not created equal and can conjure different interpretations based on the environment in which they are being displayed.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
When you hear someone gossiping about you, remember 2 Don'ts -- don't get angry and don't react with tit for tat. Neither… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image