Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make… — George Mikes
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of… — Renata Adler
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced… — Elinor Lipman
A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that… — Ellen G. White
Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him… — Al Smith
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. — Henry David Thoreau
You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a… — Daniel Finkelstein
I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people sense they should… — Roger Ebert
Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. — Lauren Willig
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality). — William Wilberforce
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,… — Alexander Pope
Clothes and manners do not make the... — Arthur Ashe
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their… — Wolfgang Kohler
Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. — Amy Vanderbilt
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who… — Judith Martin
I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when… — Bill Kaulitz
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms… — Judith Martin
The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest… — Judith Martin
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. — Moshe Katsav
La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If… — Unknown Author
A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners. — Hakim
I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners — Hiroko Sakai
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the… — Rod Laver

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