The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“We call them taxis where I come from. And bookstores.” God, he was stuffy. “We call them manners where I come from,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. — Bobby Bowden Copy Share Image
Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“She already told me that she doesn't have to be nice, so why do I? Because my mother raised me right? That's… — Sheryl J. Anderson Copy Share Image
~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners… The one… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for… — John Huston Copy Share Image
This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with… — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to step away from the game. I've had to do that in different manners in my career. — Diana Taurasi Copy Share Image
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“It’s just good manners. You don’t take your fight to a party. It’s no one else’s business.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When going out on a date, I think there are certain old-fashioned manners that I still enjoy. I don't mean that as… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“It was our understanding that we were to be instructing them in the ways of the civilized world, not being made beasts… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
