Manners Quotes - Page 3
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Paul Theroux (1976). “The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia”
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.397, Vintage
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.14, Basic Books
Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.244
Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl
John Ray (1737). “A compleat Collection of English Proverbs, also the most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish and other Languages”, p.13
Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.167
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.368, Hackett Publishing
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.69, Scholastic Inc.