Manners Quotes

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

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

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

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

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

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

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.

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

Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

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

I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.

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.

Beware of a man with manners.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

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

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

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

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.

What times! What manners!

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

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.

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

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.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

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

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.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.