Good Manners Quotes

141 quotes by 120 authors

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. — Benjamin Banneker
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. — Otto von Bismarck
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. — Rita Mae Brown
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. — Bennett Cerf
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman. — William Howard Taft
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others. — Alice Duer Miller
Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her. — W.C. Fields
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination… — Michel de Montaigne
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Dressing well is a form of good manners. — Tom Ford
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass. — John Vanbrugh
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the… — William Shakespeare
It has always been like that with changes. In 1913, we established divorce as a right for women in Uruguay. You know what they were… — Jose Mujica
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners.… — Quentin Crisp
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour — Hugh Massingberd

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