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Manners Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.
- To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
- Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,…
- True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
- The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through…
- Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
More Manners Quotes
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect,… — Thomas Jefferson
- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one… — Benjamin Franklin
- 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… — Enid Bagnold
- You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. — Rita Mae Brown
- 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… — Michel de Montaigne