Manners Quotes

737 quotes by 512 authors

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. — Honore de Balzac
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. — Francis Bacon
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in… — Enid Bagnold
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. — Benjamin Banneker
Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody.… — Usain Bolt
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness,… — Danny Boyle
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
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. — Edmund Burke
I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it. — Nicolas Cage
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which… — Graydon Carter
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. — Bennett Cerf
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
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
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. — Winston Churchill
I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach… — Madonna Ciccone

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