Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning"… — Roger Scruton
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong,… — John Owen
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
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. — Randall Jarrell
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that the idea of… — Alexander Calder
I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners. — Tom Robbins
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. — Bobby Bowden
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark? — James F. Cooper
Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady, — Sri Yukteswar Giri
I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how… — Rebecca Wells
In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts. — L. Ron Hubbard
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange… — Simon Schama
Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything. — Diana Vreeland
Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question. — Tina Brown
The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word ... courteous manners, a generous… — William A. Clark
It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one… — William Alexander Percy
The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably… — Varg Vikernes
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. — Martin Luther
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the… — William John Wills
Create your own job. Become the master of what you do. Fully imerse yourself in your culter. Be humble. You are never above having to… — Sophia Amoruso
Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week.… — Aldo Gucci
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in… — George Saintsbury
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little… — Charles Simmons
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

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