Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners. — Unknown Author
Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals. — Art Spander
Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live… — P. M. Forni
Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on… — Unknown Author
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children… — Socrates
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. — Stephen Bayley
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the… — David Brooks
Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember. — Christopher Titus
I would like to fly in a professional like manners one of the big airliners. I have to made my mind which of the followwing:… — Zacarias Moussaoui
I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings. — David Ogilvy
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends.... — George Bernard Shaw
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. — George Bernard Shaw
Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a… — Tom Ford
Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting,… — Guru Nanak
The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker. — William Allen White
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire… — Sergey Nechayev
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just… — Judith Martin
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners… — Flannery O'Connor
A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income… — William Maxwell
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. — Benjamin Disraeli
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is… — William Hazlitt
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes… — Thomas More

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