Manners Quotes

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

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

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.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!!

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

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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.

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

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

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

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

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.

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

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

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.

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

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.