Bad Manners Quotes

41 quotes by 37 authors

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. — Benjamin Banneker
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a… — Aldous Huxley
Bad manners make a journalist. — Oscar Wilde
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. — Lillian Gish
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children… — Socrates
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same… — Lorrie Moore
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
There is no nobility with bad manners. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make… — George Mikes
As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself...all… — Audrey Hepburn
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls. — George Bernard Shaw
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with… — Matt Fraction
Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners. — Rosalind Wiseman
Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like… — George Santayana
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of… — Baltasar Gracian
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners. — Bryan Cranston
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. — Henry James
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. — Bryant H. McGill

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