Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature… — Matthew Arnold
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every… — John Hancock
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language… — Bayard Taylor
It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight. — Judith Martin
The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality. — Judith Martin
Good manners do more for a man that good looks. — E. W. Howe
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the… — Fanny Kemble
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar… — Fanny Kemble
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts… — Alberto Manguel
By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the… — Muhammad Asad
Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the… — Marcus Aurelius
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and… — William Wordsworth
A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and… — Jean de la Bruyere
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to… — Jean de la Bruyere
Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles. — Jean de la Bruyere
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners… — Madame de Stael
Morals are three-quarters manners. — Felix Frankfurter
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. — Benjamin Franklin
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. — Oliver Goldsmith
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. — Barry Goldwater
A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful… — Selena Gomez

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