quotes 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.
-- Albert Hadley -
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.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
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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 Camp -
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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 Goldwater -
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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.
-- Bill Vaughan -
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.
-- Dylan Thomas -
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To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.
-- Edmond Rostand -
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 -
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.
-- Edward Everett -
Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.
-- Emily Post -
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Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.
-- Emily Post -
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.
-- Emily PostSource : Emily Post, Elizabeth L. Post (1984). “Emily Post's Etiquette”, HarperCollins Publishers
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Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
-- Evelyn WaughSource : In Observer 15 Apr. 1962
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Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
-- Fanny Jackson CoppinSource : Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl
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Morals are three-quarters manners.
-- Felix FrankfurterSource : "Felix Frankfurter Reminisces". Book by Harlan Buddington Phillips, January 1, 1960.
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Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.
-- Fredrika Bremer -
Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends....
-- George Bernard Shaw -
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
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The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
-- George Gilder -
Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
-- George Washington -
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
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Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.
-- H. Allen Smith -
To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
-- Hannah More -
We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners
-- Hannibal -
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
-- Hector Hugh Munro -
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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
-- Horace MannSource : Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.80
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
-- J. Irwin Miller -
I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.
-- James Boswell -
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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
-- Jane Austen -
To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
-- Jean Cocteau -
In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
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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.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
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.
-- John BoyneSource : John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.66, Random House
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Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
-- John VanbrughSource : John Vanbrugh (1730). “Esop. [By Sir John Vanbrugh.]”, p.54
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Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.
-- Jonathan RabanSource : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.378, Pan Macmillan
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Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
-- Jonathan Swift -
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
-- Jonathan SwiftSource : Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.244
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I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.
-- Joy Baluch -
I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.
-- Kathy Griffin -
The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
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Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.
-- Lauren WilligSource : Lauren Willig (2011). “The Orchid Affair: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.299, Penguin
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You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
-- Lillian Gish -
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
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Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
-- Loretta Young -
Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.
-- Lori FosterSource : Lori Foster (2006). “Jude's Law”, p.212, Zebra Books
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Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.
-- Louise ColetSource : "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 108), 1886.
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Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.
-- Lynne Truss -
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People who stare deserve the looks they get.
-- Malcolm Forbes -
as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.
-- Margaret DelandSource : Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.182, Wildside Press LLC
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Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
-- Margaret MillarSource : Margaret Millar (2002). “Best Mysteries of All Time: A Stranger in My Grave”, Impress
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I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.
-- Maureen Johnson -
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Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
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A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.
-- Millicent FenwickSource : Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”
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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
-- Molly Ivins -
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Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
-- Moshe KatsavSource : "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.
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Teach a child good manners during babyhood.
-- Nachman of Breslov -
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis -
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...
-- Nikolai GogolSource : Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.397, Vintage
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When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.
-- Ntozake Shange -
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
-- Og Mandino -
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
-- Oscar Wilde -
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.
-- Ovid -
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Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.
-- Owen Feltham -
Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
-- Patricia Briggs -
My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right ...
-- Patricia Wentworth -
In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.
-- Penelope Keith -
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The first point of courtesy must always be truth.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
-- Randall Jarrell -
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
-- Richard Whately -