Manners Quotes
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I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.
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Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
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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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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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The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
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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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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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I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.
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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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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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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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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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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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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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What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?
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In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.
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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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Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
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I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.
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It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
