Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. — Lynne Truss
It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if… — Alison Croggon
Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you. — Karen Joy Fowler
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you… — Raymond Chandler
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a… — Fannie Flagg
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines… — Ursula K. Le Guin
O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For… — Edgar Allan Poe
Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind… — Haruki Murakami
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural… — Jane Austen
Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone… — Margaret George
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the… — Samuel Adams
In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and… — Hilari Bell
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. — Emily Post
He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." . . . Forgive him, he has no manners." I get by on… — Sarah Rees Brennan
October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your… — Mira Grant
They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners… — Terry Pratchett
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could… — Gustave Flaubert
I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you. — Elsie de Wolfe
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. — Benjamin Franklin
Well, that’s just a little hard, since I can’t even talk her into sparing your life, huh? You haven’t exactly endeared yourself to her. (Kat)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit... — Stella Gibbons
Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author… — Robertson Davies

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