Manners Quotes
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It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
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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.
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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.
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I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.
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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.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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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.
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The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
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This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.
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It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
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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.
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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.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
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Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
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In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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.
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We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.
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Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
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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.
