Manners Quotes

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

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.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

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.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.

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.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

You lose your manners when you are poor.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

I learned everything from that show, so it's just a wonderful memory to me. A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show... I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

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

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.

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

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

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.