Manners Quotes

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

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

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

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

Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore.

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more.

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

Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

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.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

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.

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.

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.

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.

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.

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

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.

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting.

Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.

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.

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

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

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.

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's.

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

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

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

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

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

My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.​

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

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

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

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.

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

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.