Quotes and Sayings About Manners
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I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge...
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak -
Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.
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Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
-- Alexander McCall SmithSource : Alexander McCall Smith (2004). “The Sunday Philosophy Club”, p.153, Anchor
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The greater man the greater courtesy.
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The greater person is one of courtesy.
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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
-- Alfred P. SloanSource : "The Almanac of Quotable Quotes from 1990". Book by Ronald D. Pasquariello, p. 103, 1991.
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There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
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Good manners require space and time.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
-- Amy VanderbiltSource : Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”
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I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
-- Andrew Young -
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.
-- Anna CampSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
-- B. C. Forbes -
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
-- Barry GoldwaterSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
-- Bernard Crick -
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
-- Charlton HestonSource : "Appreciation: Charlton Heston" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. April 6, 2008.
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I never let my politics supersede my manners.
-- Darren Criss -
Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.
-- David RiesmanSource : David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
-- Diana VreelandSource : Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”
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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.
-- Diane Sawyer -
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Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?
-- Dick Gregory -
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
-- Dorothy Parker -
And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.
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To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.
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Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay