One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.” — Fanny Jackson Coppin 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
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
True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your… — Kate Simon Copy Share Image
A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
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
“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 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
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
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. — Bill Kelly 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
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
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
