Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“manners don’t cost anything. Nothing can be lost by using them, but much can be gained,” — Dean Cadman Copy Share Image
“Nimewapa watoto wangu kila kitu katika maisha isipokuwa umaskini. Lakini bado wamenishinda.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others. — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it… — 1779 The Town and Country Magazine. vol. 11 Copy Share Image
England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess Should teach them the poor to despise; For 'tis good manners, and not… — Jane Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Full bellies breed gentle manners. A pinch of famine makes monsters.(Bringing up the bodies,pg 36)” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leapt them over. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Keep Correcting Your Little Mistakes!., Because Nobody Slips Down By Hills, But Just Slips By Little Stones... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." . . . Forgive him, he has no manners." I… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux. — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Me being mean: Can you shut the fuck up? Me being nice: Can you please shut the fuck up? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words spoken with good manners have reached a lot more hearts than words spoken sternly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“It's good netiquette to look for every opportunity to compliment others online. — David Chiles Copy Share Image
When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home. — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
