Best Good Manners Sayings
141 Good Manners quotes by 114 unique authors
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When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
— Theodore Dalrymple
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Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
— Colley Cibber
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Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy.…
— Norman Tebbit
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Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Good manners are a sign of strength.
— Dick Francis
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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life…
— June Jordan
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Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
— Lord Chesterfield
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If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells…
— Oswald Chambers
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When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel…
— Stephen Chbosky
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It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline…
— Antonio Gramsci
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The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion -…
— Henry Steele Commager
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In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children…
— June Jordan
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For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often…
— C. D. Broad
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The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Good manners do more for a man that good looks.
— E. W. Howe
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As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts…
— Alberto Manguel
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The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity…
— Katie Couric
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Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
— Ann Landers
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You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
— Robert MacNeil
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