Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse. — John Keats
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and… — Raymond Chandler
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched. — Maria Edgeworth
You lose your manners when you're poor. — Lillian Hellman
Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business. — Virginia Cary Hudson
I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful… — Freya Stark
If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells… — Oswald Chambers
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to… — David Hume
Civility is not simply about manners. — Jim Leach
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the… — John Shelton Reed
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. — Alexander McCall Smith
I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous? — Julian Lennon
In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else. — Penelope Keith
I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed,… — Garrison Keillor
Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them. — David Riesman
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before. — Dorothy L. Sayers
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who… — Philip Roth
I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. — Joy Baluch
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being… — Edward Bond
Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill… — Michael Symon
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were… — Henry Walter Bates
I never let my politics supersede my manners. — Darren Criss
When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel… — Stephen Chbosky
Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions. — Anna Camp
Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me:… — Roman Coppola

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