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Manners Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.
- Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
- Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
- He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as…
More Manners Quotes
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. — Honore de Balzac
- If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. — Benjamin Banneker
- Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody… — Usain Bolt