Manners Quotes

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

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

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

Manners are love in a cool climate.

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

Beware of a man with manners.

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

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

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

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

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

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

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

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

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.

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.

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

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