Manners Quotes
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
Kara Swisher
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I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
Nicolas Cage
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I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.
Deborah Levy
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I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
Jane Austen
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
Arthur Ashe
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
Oscar Wilde
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When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
Robert Wilson Lynd
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Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably continue to get foreign tribal tattoos, dress, walk, talk, look and act like homosexuals, and so forth.
Varg Vikernes
Burzum
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In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.
John Graham Mellor
The 101ers
