Doing things Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

— Sydney Smith

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

— Sydney Smith

Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create…

— Peter Drucker

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

— Molly Ivins

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

— Lynne Truss

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

— Quentin Crisp

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they…

— Dorian Cox

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

— Tina Brown

Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson