Manners Quotes
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Many a time have I wondered at the unworthy ways of Fate, at the pettiness of the pleasure it takes in frustrating plans that are small and innocent, at its entire want of dignity, at its singular spitefulness, at the resemblance of its manners to those of an evilly-disposed kitchen-maid....
Elizabeth von Arnim -
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.
Bette Midler
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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.
Vladimir Nabokov -
It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.
Barbara Cameron -
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
George Gilder -
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 -
Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
Arthur Ashe
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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.
Oscar Wilde -
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?
Humphry Davy -
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
William Wilberforce -
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
William Congreve -
Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
Cyrus Augustus Bartol -
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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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.
Bill Kaulitz -
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher -
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
Nikolai Gogol -
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers -
Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manners and life of his time and, in turn, gives these impressions back to the world -- simplified, clarified and glorified.
Jerome Kern -
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
William Shakespeare
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Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
Margaret Millar -
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 -
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift -
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