Manners Quotes

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

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

Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners... I know some of the most beautiful women, and they are so weird. That's what makes them funny and captivating.

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?

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

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

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.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

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.

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

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

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

The society of women is the element of good manners.

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

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.

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

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

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

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

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

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

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.

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

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

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.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

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

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

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.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

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

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

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

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