Manners famous quotes

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge...
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak

#Years #Twenties #Manners

Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.
-- Albert Hadley

#Matter #Life Is #Manners

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Block #Building #Manners

The greater man the greater courtesy.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Men #Courtesy #Manners

The greater person is one of courtesy.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Courtesy #Manners #Persons

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
-- Alfred P. Sloan

#Diagnosis #Manners #Substitutes

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

#Envy #Manners #Bad Manners

There is no nobility with bad manners.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Manners #Nobility #Bad Manners

Good manners require space and time.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Space #Good Man #Manners

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Good Man #Emotion #Manners

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

#Self #Moral #Manners

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

#South Carolina #Manners #Grew Up

Clothes and manners do not make the...
-- Arthur Ashe

#Clothes #African American #Manners

Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
-- B. C. Forbes

#People #Moral #Manners

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Law #Want #Manners

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
-- Barry Goldwater

#Communication #Anger #Manners

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
-- Bernard Crick

#Manners #Useful Things #Rough

Contraries are cured by contraries.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Behaviour #Behavior #Manners

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Behaviour #Behavior #Manners

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
-- Charlton Heston

#Atheist #Political #Manners

I never let my politics supersede my manners.
-- Darren Criss

#Manners

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.
-- David Riesman

#Mean #People #Manners

Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Thinking #Thoughtfulness #Manners

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

#Thinking #Facts #Manners

Good manners are a sign of strength.
-- Dick Francis

#Good Man #Manners #Good Manners

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?
-- Dick Gregory

#People #Moral #Manners

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
-- Dorothy Parker

#Manners #Etiquette #Exquisite

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Gentleman #Manners

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.
-- Edmond Rostand

#Moral #Pleasure #Manners

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

#Thinking #Rude #Manners

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.
-- Edward Everett

#Cowardice #Manners #Characteristics

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

#Color #Manners #Certain

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

#Self #Consideration #Manners

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

#Doe #Manners #Made

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

#Courtesy #Manners #Social

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
-- Evelyn Waugh

#Luck #Needs #Manners

Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
-- Fanny Jackson Coppin

#People #Good Man #Manners

Morals are three-quarters manners.
-- Felix Frankfurter

#Three #Moral #Manners

Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.
-- Fredrika Bremer

#Serenity #Zenith #Manners

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends....
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Law #Important #Manners

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.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Dresses #England #Manners

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

#Facts #Moral #Manners

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
-- George Washington

#Matter #Serious #Manners

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
-- Gertrude Atherton

#New York #Real #Manners

Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.
-- H. Allen Smith

#Mean #Moral #Manners

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

#Royalty #Virtue #Manners

We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners
-- Hannibal

#Disappointment #Good Man #Manners

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

#Thinking #Moral #Manners

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
-- Horace Mann

#Moral #Mature #Manners

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

#Cynical #Shame #Manners

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

#Ambition #Vanity #Manners

Teach that ***** some manners.
-- Jamie McGuire

#Manners #Teach

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

#Opinion #Manners #Persons

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

#Manners #Tact #Audacious

Civility is not simply about manners.
-- Jim Leach

#Civility #Manners

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Want #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.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Character #Men #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.
-- John Boyne

#Heart #Reason #Manners

Manners make often fortunes.
-- John Ray

#Manners #Fortune

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

#Good Man #Ethics #Manners

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 Raban

#Blue #Cities #Manners

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
-- Jonathan Swift

#Flattery #Manners #Ill

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
-- Jonathan Swift

#Ruins #Manners #States

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.
-- Joseph Cook

#Manners #Certain #Physiognomy

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

#Bangs #Tables #Manners

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

#People #Manners #Raised

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

#Trying #Manners #Should

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Culture #Ease #Manners

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

#Knitting #Manners #Needles

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
-- Lillian Gish

#Good Man #Manners #Easier

You lose your manners when you're poor.
-- Lillian Hellman

#Poverty #Poor #Manners

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

#Good Man #Return #Manners

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
-- Loretta Young

#Dresses #Matter #Manners

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

#Boys #Manners #Beats

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.
-- Louise Colet

#Manners #Discord

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

#Imagination #Manners #Persons

People who stare deserve the looks they get.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#People #Looks #Manners

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

#Manners #Incompatibility #Truthfulness

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

#Problem #Excuse #Manners

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

#May #Manners #Lunatic

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

#Children #Rude #Manners

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Lasts #Cookies #Manners

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 Fenwick

#Community #Behavior #Manners

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

#Expression #People #Manners

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
-- Moshe Katsav

#Well Known #Manners #Persian

Teach a child good manners during babyhood.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Children #Good Man #Manners

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis

#Study #Manners #Politeness

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

#Savages #Manners

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

#Space #Manners #Disappear

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
-- Og Mandino

#Grace #Sugar #Manners

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Oysters #World #Manners

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.
-- Ovid

#Giving #Manners #Polish

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

#Wine #Men #Manners

Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Guests #Manners #Darling

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

#Father #Telephones #Manners

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.
-- Penelope Keith

#Book #Thinking #Manners

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Support #Needs #Manners

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Firsts #Courtesy #Manners

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
-- Randall Jarrell

#Manners #Frightening

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
-- Richard Whately

#Men #Influence #Manners