Manners Quotes
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Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
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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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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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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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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
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Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
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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 ‘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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
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Yankees are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
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Clothes and manners do not make the...
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
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Bad manners make a journalist.
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Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
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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.
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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...
