It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.” — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
When You Develop The Ability To Listen To Anything Without Losing Your Temper Or Self-Confidence, It Means That You Have Become Well-Mannered… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who… — Judith Martin 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
The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
“He then bespattered the youth with abundance of that language which passes between country gentleman who embrace opposite sides of the question;… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What are you? Do you know? What you are is you’re always trying to smooth everything over. What you are is always… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
![“The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole -- besides being an homme d'action [man of action] -- that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a…” quote by Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e35/karl-marx-399_action_the-most-interesting-acquaintanceship-i_2891880.jpg)
