Good Manners Quotes

Where there are no women there are no good manners

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

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

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

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

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

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

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.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you.

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

Forget love. Try good manners.

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was simply good manners to let them know, from time to time, how valued they were.

I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

Too many people think that "good manners" are about subjugating yourself to others. Not true. Respect, and just as important, self-respect are two key elements in this equation.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.