Dignity Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert…

— Anonymous

The society of women is the element of good manners.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Manners form the great charm of women.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“While good old-fashioned manners and etiquette have worked for centuries, new standards and expectations have come into play with the modern world. Behaviors which…

— Susan C. Young

Every generation is convinced there has been a deplorable breakdown of manners

— Byron Dobell

Manners have been somewhatcynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of…

— J. Irwin Miller