Manners Quotes
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Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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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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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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We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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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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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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Yankees are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
Margaret Mitchell
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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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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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Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
Fanny Jackson Coppin
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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 best manners are stained by haughtiness.
Claudius Claudianus
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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
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Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
Margaret Millar
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From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
Jane Austen
