Manners Quotes - Page 4

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Honor has to say "please" and "thank you." Manners are really important.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

Manners are the ornament of action.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

Teach a child good manners during babyhood.

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.