Manners Quotes
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.
To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.
Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.
I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.
Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.
He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." . . . Forgive him, he has no manners." I get by on good looks," Nick said.
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
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.
Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in the end, they're going to be who they're going to be.
Money doesn't mean that you are educated, have manners, class or even have good hygiene. All it means is . . . you have money!
Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.
I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.
She says I am not fair, that I lack manners; She calls me proud, and that she could not love me, Were man as rare as Phoenix.
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.
It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!
God gave you a gift of 84, 600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?
...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
