Manners Quotes

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.

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

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

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

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

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.

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.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

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