Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up… — Bernard Goldberg
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline… — Antonio Gramsci
I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where… — Katherine Helmond
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace. — Thomas More
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion -… — Henry Steele Commager
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. — Richard Rosen
Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents. — Thomas Lickona
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often… — Samuel Johnson
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children… — June Jordan
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. — Horace
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new… — Saadi
Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than… — Joseph Addison
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock… — John Dryden
England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be… — William Cowper
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… — Alexander Pope
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. — John Milton
O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the… — Mortimer Collins
The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and… — Jules Feiffer
The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children… — Sathya Sai Baba
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more… — Joshua Reynolds
Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe. — Amy Poehler
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code… — Richard M. Weaver
Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty. — Fredrika Bremer
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often… — C. D. Broad

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