Their Manners Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old… — Benjamin Franklin
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving… — Humphry Davy
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
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
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde
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
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 people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were… — Henry Walter Bates
Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature… — Matthew Arnold
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. — Benjamin Franklin
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their… — R. Buckminster Fuller
We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners… — Gary Vaynerchuk
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when… — Samuel Adams
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could… — Gustave Flaubert
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. — Benjamin Franklin
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find. — William Shakespeare
The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners. — Dan Jenkins
If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first… — Bubbles

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