Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.” — Barbara Cameron Copy Share Image
“When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.” — John Patrick Hickey Copy Share Image
One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members. — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Instead of asking your child what they learned today, ask them who they helped today.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of courtesy, manners, grace,… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby. "What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You have no sensitivity that your soul shall leave in the subtle body and that your subtle body is as sophisticated as… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
No matter how badly people treat you, never drop yourself down on their level, just know youre better and walk away. — Anas Copy Share Image
I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners. — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.” — Maralee McKee Copy Share Image
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that. — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
“Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.” — T. A. Miles Copy Share Image
It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so. — Josh Billings 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
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
I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“If you forget your manners, you can always borrow mine. I won't be using them.” — Jarod Kintz 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
