Manners Quotes

737 quotes by 492 authors

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. — Jean Cocteau
Political correctness is tyranny with manners. — Charlton Heston
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
Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than… — Milan Kundera
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
He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it. — Samuel Johnson
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. — William Shakespeare
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The first point of courtesy must always be truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages. — Baltasar Gracian
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. — Lord Chesterfield
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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