Manners Quotes

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

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

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.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe.

I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.

Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.

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

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

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.

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

Aline: "He's cute, for a Downworlder" Sebastian: "You'll have to forgive her; she has the face of an angel and the manners of a Moloch demon

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

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.

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.

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

I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.

And where does she find them?

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

Morals are three-quarters manners.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

A great social reformer.

Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd.

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.

Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.

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

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.

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.

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

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.