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 -
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
William Shakespeare
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Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
Fanny Jackson Coppin -
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
William Hazlitt -
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
Bill Vaughan -
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 -
My Mum taught me great manners. And she always told me that you can be or do whatever in life, as long as you don't hurt anyone and you're happy. My Mum's great; I adore her.
Colin Farrell
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There's a lot of time when skaters think they know everything because they've seen videos of you, and seen you on TV or the internet, and there's ways of throwing jabs and being inconsiderate and not having your manners.
Mike Vallely Black Flag -
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
Bill Vaughan -
I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.
Arthur Wimperis -
Contraries are cured by contraries.
Bill Vaughan -
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
William Shakespeare -
Clothes and manners do not make the...
Arthur Ashe
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
Thomas More -
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.
Deborah Levy -
Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
Molly Ivins -
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
William Blackstone -
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Rita Mae Brown -
O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest...
Edgar Allan Poe
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Bad manners make a journalist.
Oscar Wilde -
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
Bill Vaughan -
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
W. S. Gilbert -
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
Freya Stark