Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. — Lillian Gish
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very… — Zosia Mamet
Manners. Manners will get you through anything. — Ronan Farrow
Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters. — Albert Hadley
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What… — Edith Wharton
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life. — Edward Abbey
We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here. — Edward Abbey
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both… — Samuel Adams
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not. — John Quincy Adams
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole -- besides being an… — Karl Marx
We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners — Hannibal
Where there are no women there are no good manners — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed… — Antonin Scalia
Most women find a man with good manners sexy. — Candice Swanepoel
I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners. — Maureen Johnson
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion… — Christopher Columbus
Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that… — Mary Wollstonecraft
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country,… — Edmund Burke
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. — Mary Wollstonecraft
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can… — Richard V. Allen
Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And… — George Crabbe
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to… — Benjamin Rush
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex… — Margaret Mead

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