Quotes about Manners

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. Votes: 4

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. Votes: 4

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. Votes: 4

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. Votes: 4

Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents. Votes: 4

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Votes: 4

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Manners make often fortunes. Votes: 3

Manners are the ornament of action. Votes: 3

Manners. Manners will get you through anything. Votes: 3

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned. Votes: 3

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society Votes: 3

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. Votes: 3

Manners are love in a cool climate. Votes: 3

Manners form the great charm of women. Votes: 3

Manners are the happy ways of doing things. Votes: 3

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. Votes: 3

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. Votes: 3

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other. Votes: 3

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. Votes: 3

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people. Votes: 3

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to. Votes: 3

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time. Votes: 3

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. Votes: 3

Honor has to say "please" and "thank you." Manners are really important. Votes: 3

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. Votes: 3

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man. Votes: 3

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. Votes: 3

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. Votes: 3

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. Votes: 3

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly ... Votes: 3

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. Votes: 3

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends.... Votes: 3

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine. Votes: 3

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close. Votes: 3

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question. Votes: 3

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight. Votes: 3

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes. Votes: 3

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. Votes: 3

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. Votes: 3

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners. Votes: 3

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things. Votes: 3

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic. Votes: 3

Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations. Votes: 3

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person. Votes: 3

If "Manners maketh man," as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they say."(Englishman in New York) Votes: 3

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit. Votes: 3

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse? Votes: 3

Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting. Votes: 3

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. Votes: 2

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Votes: 2

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. Votes: 2

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners. Votes: 2

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. Votes: 2

The society of women is the element of good manners. Votes: 2

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. Votes: 2

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. Votes: 2

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. Votes: 2

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. Votes: 2

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. Votes: 2

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. Votes: 2

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. Votes: 2

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. Votes: 2

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. Votes: 2

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. Votes: 2

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. Votes: 2

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. Votes: 2

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. Votes: 2

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. Votes: 2

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. Votes: 2

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. Votes: 2

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. Votes: 2

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. Votes: 2

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. Votes: 2

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved. Votes: 2

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. Votes: 2

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. Votes: 2

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. Votes: 2

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?' Votes: 2

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. Votes: 2

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. Votes: 2

I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures. Votes: 2

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time. Votes: 2

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations. Votes: 2

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards. Votes: 2

Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most. Votes: 2

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. Votes: 2

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. Votes: 2

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing! Votes: 2

What times! What manners! Votes: 0

Morals are three-quarters manners. Votes: 0

Teach that asshole some manners. Votes: 0

Bad manners make a journalist. Votes: 0

Forget love. Try good manners. Votes: 0

Good manners are never passé. Votes: 0

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners. Votes: 0

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Votes: 0

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. Votes: 0

Civility is not simply about manners. Votes: 0

Beware of a man with manners. Votes: 0

Good manners require space and time. Votes: 0

Teach a child good manners during babyhood. Votes: 0

Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners. Votes: 0

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable. Votes: 0

The best manners are stained by haughtiness. Votes: 0

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners. Votes: 0

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Votes: 0

There is a certain physiognomy in manners. Votes: 0

What once were vices are manners now. Votes: 0

Dressing well is an expression of manners. Votes: 0

Good manners are a sign of strength. Votes: 0

You lose your manners when you're poor. Votes: 0

Clothes and manners do not make the... Votes: 0

There is no nobility with bad manners. Votes: 0

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals. Votes: 0

Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters. Votes: 0

Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners. Votes: 0

Air and manners are more expressive than words. Votes: 0

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied. Votes: 0

I never let my politics supersede my manners. Votes: 0

Good manners are a part of good morals. Votes: 0

Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty. Votes: 0

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. Votes: 0

Dressing well is a form of good manners. Votes: 0

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles. Votes: 0

I have no use for people who exhibit manners. Votes: 0

Lack of manners is the sign of a hero. Votes: 0

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners. Votes: 0

Association with women is the basis of good manners. Votes: 0

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. Votes: 0

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud. Votes: 0

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality. Votes: 0

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere. Votes: 0

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning. Votes: 0

Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe. Votes: 0

Bad manners does not mean they make bad company. Votes: 0

There is a nobility in the world of manners. Votes: 0

Most women find a man with good manners sexy. Votes: 0

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. Votes: 0

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners. Votes: 0

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners. Votes: 0

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched. Votes: 0

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady, Votes: 0

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Votes: 0

...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... Votes: 0

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women. Votes: 0

Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything. Votes: 0

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind. Votes: 0

Good manners do more for a man that good looks. Votes: 0

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes. Votes: 0

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses. Votes: 0

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you. Votes: 0

Where there are no women there are no good manners Votes: 0

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years. Votes: 0

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself. Votes: 0

Take care of your manners as seriously as your money. Votes: 0

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners. Votes: 0

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals. Votes: 0

Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere. Votes: 0

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable. Votes: 0

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else. Votes: 0

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing. Votes: 0

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings. Votes: 0

We all need good manners, like our friends from the zoo! Votes: 0

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners. Votes: 0

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. Votes: 0

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. Votes: 0

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners. Votes: 0

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners Votes: 0

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. Votes: 0

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. Votes: 0

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings. Votes: 0

My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me Votes: 0

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors! Votes: 0

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. Votes: 0

Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners. Votes: 0

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. Votes: 0

Fuck your manners.""You don't have to settle for just my manners. Votes: 0

Good manners will open doors that even the best pick-up lines can't. Votes: 0

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water. Votes: 0

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character. Votes: 0

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. Votes: 0

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. Votes: 0

A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners. Votes: 0

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. Votes: 0

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. Votes: 0

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. Votes: 0

The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners. Votes: 0

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here. Votes: 0

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. Votes: 0

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . Votes: 0

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners. Votes: 0

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others. Votes: 0

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. Votes: 0

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad. Votes: 0

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge... Votes: 0

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. Votes: 0

I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings. Votes: 0

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass. Votes: 0

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find. Votes: 0

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman. Votes: 0

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. Votes: 0

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist. Votes: 0

Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child. Votes: 0

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners. Votes: 0

You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon. Votes: 0

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners. Votes: 0

Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them. Votes: 0

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts. Votes: 0

I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners. Votes: 0

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners. Votes: 0

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on Votes: 0

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. Votes: 0

We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners Votes: 0

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing. Votes: 0

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. Votes: 0

Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners Votes: 0

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. Votes: 0

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. Votes: 0

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them. Votes: 0

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners Votes: 0

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own. Votes: 0

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. Votes: 0

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe. Votes: 0

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners. Votes: 0

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners. Votes: 0

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. Votes: 0

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. Votes: 0

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day. Votes: 0

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. Votes: 0

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. Votes: 0

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. Votes: 0

I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners. Votes: 0

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. Votes: 0

A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind. Votes: 0

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners. Votes: 0

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility. Votes: 0

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. Votes: 0

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. Votes: 0

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. Votes: 0

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. Votes: 0

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice. Votes: 0

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. Votes: 0

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. Votes: 0

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. Votes: 0

I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners. Votes: 0

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners. Votes: 0

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners. Votes: 0

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. Votes: 0

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. Votes: 0

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time. Votes: 0

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality. Votes: 0

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. Votes: 0

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. Votes: 0

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners. Votes: 0

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality. Votes: 0

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed. Votes: 0

The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leapt them over. Votes: 0

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws. Votes: 0

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style Votes: 0

Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners. Votes: 0

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners. Votes: 0

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. Votes: 0

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own. Votes: 0

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey. Votes: 0

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great. Votes: 0

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour Votes: 0

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners. Votes: 0

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege. Votes: 0

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. Votes: 0

Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. Votes: 0

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners. Votes: 0

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion. Votes: 0

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them. Votes: 0

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with. Votes: 0

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker. Votes: 0

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. Votes: 0

My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners. Votes: 0

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength. Votes: 0

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark? Votes: 0

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. Votes: 0

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux. Votes: 0

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. Votes: 0

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element. Votes: 0

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude. Votes: 0

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves. Votes: 0

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones. Votes: 0

Clothes and manners do not make the man but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance Votes: 0

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. Votes: 0

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. Votes: 0

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices. Votes: 0

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. Votes: 0

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. Votes: 0

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners. Votes: 0

Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore. Votes: 0

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves. Votes: 0

Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners. Votes: 0

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools. Votes: 0

What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love. Votes: 0

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own. Votes: 0

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. Votes: 0

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. Votes: 0

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. Votes: 0

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one. Votes: 0

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. Votes: 0

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both. Votes: 0

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. Votes: 0

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners. Votes: 0

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners Votes: 0

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. Votes: 0

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others. Votes: 0

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. Votes: 0

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. Votes: 0

The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty. Votes: 0

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure. Votes: 0

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. Votes: 0

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous? Votes: 0

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. Votes: 0

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids. Votes: 0

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls. Votes: 0

I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. Votes: 0

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is. Votes: 0

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary. Votes: 0

Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go. Votes: 0

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do. Votes: 0

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality). Votes: 0

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners. Votes: 0

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life... Votes: 0

When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear. Votes: 0

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am. Votes: 0

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are. Votes: 0

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now. Votes: 0

Good manners is just being respectful of others. Whether you know them or not, you should show respect for all people. Votes: 0

Judging others' intentions is the right of God alone. We don't have this right, and it is poor manners with God. Votes: 0

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. Votes: 0

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect. Votes: 0

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it. Votes: 0

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. Votes: 0

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street. Votes: 0

Money doesn't mean that you are educated, have manners, class or even have good hygiene. All it means is . . . you have money! Votes: 0

Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners. Votes: 0

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. Votes: 0

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity. Votes: 0

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses. Votes: 0

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. Votes: 0

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things. Votes: 0

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs. Votes: 0

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. Votes: 0

I dont like it when people dont hold the door. I dont know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners. Votes: 0

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts. Votes: 0

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. Votes: 0

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained. Votes: 0

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners. Votes: 0

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners. Votes: 0

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. Votes: 0

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. Votes: 0

Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her. Votes: 0

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not. Votes: 0

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. Votes: 0

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. Votes: 0

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette? Votes: 0

If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man. Votes: 0

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum. Votes: 0

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. Votes: 0

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. Votes: 0

I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents. Votes: 0

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners? Votes: 0

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely. Votes: 0

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace. Votes: 0

Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember. Votes: 0

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse. Votes: 0

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners. Votes: 0

Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear. Votes: 0

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Votes: 0

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit... Votes: 0

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. Votes: 0

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. Votes: 0

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. Votes: 0

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it. Votes: 0

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life. Votes: 0

It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight... Votes: 0

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it. Votes: 0

I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners. Votes: 0

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet. Votes: 0

I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying to impress me. Votes: 0

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions. Votes: 0

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power. Votes: 0

Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners. Votes: 0

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. Votes: 0

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization. Votes: 0

It doesn’t matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you, Votes: 0

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman. Votes: 0

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned. Votes: 0

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners. Votes: 0

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle. Votes: 0

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing. Votes: 0

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more? Votes: 0

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters. Votes: 0

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun. Votes: 0

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul. Votes: 0

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners. Votes: 0

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people. Votes: 0

He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." . . . Forgive him, he has no manners." I get by on good looks," Nick said. Votes: 0

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners. Votes: 0

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency. Votes: 0

Aline: "He's cute, for a Downworlder" Sebastian: "You'll have to forgive her; she has the face of an angel and the manners of a Moloch demon Votes: 0

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home. Votes: 0

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite. Votes: 0

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth Votes: 0

The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies. Votes: 0

Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation. Votes: 0

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. Votes: 0

Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table. Votes: 0

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. Votes: 0

One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans. Votes: 0

The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages. Votes: 0

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy. Votes: 0

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves. Votes: 0

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in. Votes: 0

The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics. Votes: 0

My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago."‹ Votes: 0

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality. Votes: 0

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. Votes: 0

Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite. Votes: 0

Too many people think that "good manners" are about subjugating yourself to others. Not true. Respect, and just as important, self-respect are two key elements in this equation. Votes: 0

I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect. Votes: 0

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats. Votes: 0

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them. Votes: 0

Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment. Votes: 0

On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt. Votes: 0

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters. Votes: 0

I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. Votes: 0

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots. Votes: 0

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself. Votes: 0

I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me. Votes: 0

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own. Votes: 0

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right ... Votes: 0

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. Votes: 0

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation. Votes: 0

In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information. Votes: 0

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart. Votes: 0

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add. Votes: 0

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. Votes: 0

A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style. Votes: 0

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements. Votes: 0

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought. Votes: 0

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all. Votes: 0

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you. Votes: 0

Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated. Votes: 0

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes. Votes: 0

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right. Votes: 0

How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight. Votes: 0

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all. Votes: 0

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners. Votes: 0

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing! Votes: 0

Well I'm finding it harderto be a gentleman every dayAll the manners that I've been taughthave slowly died awayBut if I held the door open for youIt wouldn't make your day. Votes: 0

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. Votes: 0

I'm a child of the 50s. I was expected to have table manners. There needs to be some expectations for behavior. I'm seeing some children today, they don't push them enough. Votes: 0

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind. Votes: 0

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves. Votes: 0

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee. Votes: 0

Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye. Votes: 0

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings. Votes: 0

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart. Votes: 0

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own. Votes: 0

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners. Votes: 0

In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in the end, they're going to be who they're going to be. Votes: 0

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all. Votes: 0

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself...all of which I've earned a living doing. Votes: 0

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale! Votes: 0

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight. Votes: 0

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners. Votes: 0

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. Votes: 0

Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you. Votes: 0

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined. Votes: 0

Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter. Votes: 0

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners. Votes: 0