Manners Quotes
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I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. (Quote by - Humphrey Bogart)
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. (Quote by - Sarah Orne Jewett)
Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. (Quote by - Amy Vanderbilt)
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. (Quote by - E V Lucas)
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. (Quote by - W Somerset Maugham)
Civility costs nothing and buys everything. (Quote by - Mary Wortley Montague)
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. (Quote by - Abel Stevens)
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. (Quote by - Fred Astaire)
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. (Quote by - Emily Post)
The society of women is the element of good manners. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. (Quote by - Will Cuppy)
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. (Quote by - Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.)
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. (Quote by - John Milton)
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. (Quote by - Mary Wilson Little)
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. (Quote by - Margaret Walker)
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. (Quote by - Cicero)
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass. (Quote by - Sir John Vanbrugh)
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. (Quote by - Lillian Gish)
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. (Quote by - Clarence Thomas)
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man. (Quote by - Richard Whately)
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. (Quote by - Og Mandino)
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
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. (Quote by - Richard Whately)
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones. (Quote by - Gabirol)
Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident. (Quote by - P.J. O'Rourke)
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing. (Quote by - Hugh Blair)
Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty. (Quote by - Fredrika Bremer)
Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar. (Quote by - Jason Chamberlain)
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. (Quote by - Bennett Cerf)
