Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state… — Mahatma Gandhi
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is… — Carl Sagan
Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman. — Peter Mayle
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with… — Francis Parkman
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got… — Emma Thompson
When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. — Unknown Author
Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness… — Lord Chesterfield
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear… — Robert Louis Stevenson
You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is something harsh, abrupt,… — John of Kronstadt
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. — Unknown Author
When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners. — Paul Johnson
As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely. — Leon Krier
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal… — Roald Dahl
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had… — Nancy Friday
The greater the controversy, the more you need manners. — Judith Martin
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are… — Judith Martin
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. — William Wilberforce
Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we… — James E. Faust
Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams of starting a Martha Stewart magazine and starring in… — Jerry Oppenheimer
My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. — Jack Kerouac
The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners. — Dan Jenkins

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