Manners Quotes

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Where there are no women there are no good manners

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

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.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

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

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.

Manners form the great charm of women.

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

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.

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.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

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.

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.

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

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

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

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

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

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.

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.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Bad manners make a journalist.

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.

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

The early worm deserves the bird.

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.

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.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.