Manners Quotes

Contraries are cured by contraries.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

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.

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

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.

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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

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

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

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

The greater person is one of courtesy.

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

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.

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

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

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

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

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

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.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

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

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

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

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

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.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

Manners are the ornament of action.

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

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

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Teach a child good manners during babyhood.

Good manners require space and time.

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.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.