Manners Quotes

• It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

  

  William Alexander Percy
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Creatures

• I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Business
  • Citizens
  • Families

• Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Remember
  • Painting
  • Secret

• If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • America
  • Paradise
  • Nations

• What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Gentleman
  • Planets
  • Surface

• The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Religion
  • Manners
  • Ruin

• It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Trying
  • Gentle
  • Desperation

• Suffering had had an effect with which she was familiar. The refusal of self-pity and despair had turned it from lead to fire, burning up the subterfuges and dishonesties below the surface of the inherited veneer of manners and thought that most men and women think are their true selves, and the veneer with them.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Women
  • Suffering
  • Fire

• What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Talent
  • Wealth
  • Gift

• To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Thinking
  • Perfection
  • Manners

• Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

  

  Alfred Agache
  • Manners
  • Spirituality
  • Thank You

• I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Mind
  • Author
  • I Believe

• Beware of a man with manners.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Manners

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