Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. — Paul Theroux
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. — Clarence Thomas
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they… — Alexis de Tocqueville
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. — Anthony Trollope
We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. — Margaret Walker
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. — Evelyn Waugh
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. — Evelyn Waugh
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs… — Simone Weil
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. — Elwyn Brooks White
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of… — Ellen G. White
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. — Walt Whitman
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. — Wendell Willkie
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. — Loretta Young
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… — Joan Didion
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief… — Jane Austen
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any… — Jane Austen
Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere. — Elvis Costello
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I… — Oscar Wilde
What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To… — Georges Perec
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is… — Robert A. Heinlein
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon. — J.R.R. Tolkien
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... — Nikolai Gogol
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork. — Oscar Wilde

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