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Manners Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
- Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
- A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
- Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
- Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet…
- Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
- Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness…
- Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only…
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