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Manners Quotes by Judith Martin
- 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…
- Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who…
- One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms…
- The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest…
- Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing…
- People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all…
- It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.
- The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.
- Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.
- GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the…
- Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible…
- . . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we…
- Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman…
- The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.
- I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are…
More Manners Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Usain Bolt
- That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of… — 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