Manners Quotes

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

There is no nobility with bad manners.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

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

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.

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

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

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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

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

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

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

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

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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

The greater man the greater courtesy.

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.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

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.

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

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

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

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

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

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