Manners Quotes · Page 34

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

— Edward Abbey

There's a real intense thing about manners in the South, a real prescribed way to be a woman.

— Mary Wiseman

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence and…

— Charles Simmons

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

— George MacDonald

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will…

— Kate Reardon

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

— William Shakespeare

I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder…

— Arthur Wimperis

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“FIRST MORAL Good manners are not easy They need a little care, But when we least expect it Bring rewards both rich…

— Charles Perrault

I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a…

— Andy Garcia

A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Once he got there, he stopped and looked back. “You know, the thing about manners is that we only seem to notice…

— Rose Wynters

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Good manners are not merely snobbish ornaments, as Mrs. Lippett's regime appeared to believe. They mean self-discipline and thought for others, and…

— Jean Webster

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

— Michael Graves

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

— Margaret Mitchell

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Use social media for good and lift others up, not tear them down. Stay on the high road. Keep your peace.”

— Germany Kent

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy…

— Roger Ascham

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life...

— Barbara Tuchman

Now a days beauty is doesn't matter because some of them they like their good character,,not physical attraction..

— Mariane Corbito

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

— Sydney Smith

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

— Lord Chesterfield

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the…

— Jonathan Swift

There are somethings that money just cannot buy. like manners, morals and integrity…

— Anonymous

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

— John Irving

“She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had…

— Ali Smith

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

— Evelyn Waugh

I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

— Taylor Schilling

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

— William Wilberforce

I dont like it when people dont hold the door. I dont know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

— Taylor Schilling

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

— Anonymous

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has…

— Amos Bronson Alcott