Manners Quotes
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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.
Varg Vikernes
Burzum
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
Bill Vaughan
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It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.
Barbara Cameron
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
William Shakespeare
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
Bill Vaughan
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Yankees are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
Margaret Mitchell
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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.
Robert Wilson Lynd
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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.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
William Cowper
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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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
Fanny Jackson Coppin
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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
Molly Ivins
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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.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Jerome Kern
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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Jonathan Swift
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Clothes and manners do not make the...
Arthur Ashe
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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.
William Warburton
