All LORD CHESTERFIELD Quotes about “Manners”

“Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.”
“Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.”
“Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.”
“Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.”
“A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.”
“A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.”
“I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.”
“I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.”
“Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.”
“Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.”
“A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.”
“A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.”
“The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.”
“The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.”
“Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.”
“Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.”
“Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.”
“Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.”

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