Manners Quotes · Page 31

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

— Judith Martin

“I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak.”

— John Steinbeck

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

— Patricia Briggs

When we no longer hold people responsible for their choices, civility and common sense will be diminished.

— Anonymous

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

— Henry James

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

— John Ramsay McCulloch

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I get more disgusted with men all the time - particularly traveling Americans. They start out on a trip to Europe and…

— Elsa Schiaparelli

“People who confuse social behavior with manners naturally think of it as something that can be donned and doffed, a fashion that…

— Nick Joaquín

Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be…

— Michelle Sagara

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them…

— Lord Chesterfield

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and…

— William Cowper

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact…

— Diane Sawyer

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so…

— Lord Chesterfield

Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but…

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

If Trump was just a piddly-ass little hotel owner some place, having the kind of character and manners that he has, he…

— Richard Ford

At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

If I say to my daughter, "Go say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I…

— Marianne Williamson

“As with their fashions, so is it with their customs and style of living: French manners change with the age of the…

— Montesquieu

I believe very firmly that dash cams and body cams should be instituted for every single police officer in this country. Admit…

— Nancy Grace

If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate…

— Wolfgang Kohler

The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning…

— Rodolfo Llinas

In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the…

— William Strunk, Jr

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

— Hugh Blair

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

— Fanny Burney

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

— William Shakespeare

One of the few things I like about Bill Clinton is that he has very good manners. If his momma were still…

— Molly Ivins

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

— Vladimir Nabokov

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still…

— Mario Balotelli

“Francis Bacon somewhere remarks that politeness veils vice just as dress masks wrinkles.”

— John Doran

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of…

— Henry David Thoreau

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“I had never come across a talking cat before, but good manners, as my father used to say, cost nothing.”

— Jasper Fforde

Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in…

— Lynn Coady

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

— Myrtle Reed

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

— Sam Levenson

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

— Anonymous

“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