Manners Quotes
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
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Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
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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.
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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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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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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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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.
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Yankees are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
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The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.
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Clothes and manners do not make the...
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Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
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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.
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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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.
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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
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The best manners are stained by haughtiness.
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Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
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So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.
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The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.
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Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
