Manners Quotations | Page 2

It's like Miss Manners taken to the extreme,

Do not teach treason to your friends and to other seekers. Dress and manners have become polished now; but the inner man has deteriorated in virtue and faith!

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

It's critical for architects to understand the different manners in which children learn. You need an environment designed to accommodate those needs. The environment for learning is totally different than when I was in school.

The world is visiting us and we hope that the world is carrying away a friendly impression of our manners and our capabilities.

They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their social manners,

Society is smoothed to that excess, that manners hardly differ more than dress

In Japan there is a saying that .Ê.Ê. just seeing and hearing the form, the manners and the words of great people helps you grow.

In Japan there is a saying that . . . just seeing and hearing the form, the manners and the words of great people helps you grow.

I promise you this -- when you practice good manners, people notice, and in a positive way.

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

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

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.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

Beware of a man with manners.

Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

Morals are three-quarters manners.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

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.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

I dreamed my way into Lincoln and the details that moved me - his lack of education or 'civilized' manners and his deep connection to all humankind.

I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Honor has to say "please" and "thank you." Manners are really important.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

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

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

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

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.

What times! What manners!

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public ...

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

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

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

We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.

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

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

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.

Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.

Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

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

Manners make often fortunes.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

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.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

The first thing we teach is manners, how to stand side by side in the wash rack or wherever.

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.

When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

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.

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

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

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

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.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.

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

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

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

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.