Manners Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

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

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.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

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

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.