Good Quotes

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

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.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

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

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.