Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker. — William Allen White
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire… — Sergey Nechayev
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just… — Judith Martin
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners… — Flannery O'Connor
A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income… — William Maxwell
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. — Benjamin Disraeli
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is… — William Hazlitt
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes… — Thomas More
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

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