Manners Quotes - Page 2

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

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

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

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

Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

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

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.