Manners Quotes
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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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Yankees are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
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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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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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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
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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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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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It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.
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Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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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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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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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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Clothes and manners do not make the...
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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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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
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Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
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I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?
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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 best manners are stained by haughtiness.
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Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
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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.
