Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice. — Baltasar Gracian
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of… — Baltasar Gracian
I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they… — Billy Connolly
I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity… — Katie Couric
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners. — Bryan Cranston
Manners are love in a cool climate. — Quentin Crisp
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. — Aleister Crowley
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. — Benjamin Disraeli
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. — Marian Wright Edelman
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. — Albert Einstein
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. — Thomas Hardy
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — Robert A. Heinlein
I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone… — Hugh Jackman
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. — Henry James
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the… — Thomas Jefferson
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of… — Joseph Joubert
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of… — Jeffrey Kluger
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices. — Ann Landers
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. — Abraham Lincoln
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. — James Russell Lowell
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. — Robert MacNeil
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. — Og Mandino

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