Common decency Quote by Ruth Hogan

“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“much privilege leads to bad manners,”

— Danzy Senna

“without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The sense of fulfillment is often hidden in acts of kindness”

— Todd Stocker

“Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great…

— M.A.Kelty

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy…

— Yukteswar Giri

“Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when I had…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“But the best-treated, most favored and intelligent part of any society is often the most ungrateful. Ingratitude, however, is its social function.”

— Saul Bellow

“They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter,…

— Olaf Stapledon

“I think kindness, out of all virtues, is the best quality to have.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

“In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were simply habitual.”

— Mary Doria Russell

“Polite people tend to be more respected, admired, and appreciated than their rude counterparts.”

— Susan C. Young