Manners Quotes - page 2

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools. (Charlaine Harris)
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. View quote
Loretta Young
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. View quote
Clarence Thomas
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. View quote
Horace Mann
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. View quote
Edmund Burke
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex. View quote
Margaret Mead
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. View quote
Og Mandino
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart! (Frances Burney)
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. View quote
Benjamin Banneker
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Men's evil manners live in brass their virtues We write in water. View quote
William Shakespeare
...to Americans English manners are far more frightening than none at all... View quote
Randall Jarrell
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. View quote
John McGahern
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. View quote
Wendell Willkie
Political correctness is tyranny with manners. View quote
Charlton Heston
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. View quote
Emily Post
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. (Moshe Katsav)
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
... but a dying culture invariable exhibits personal rudness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
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