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Manners Quotes - Page 5

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Bill Vaughan
Behaviour, Behavior, Manners

Good manners require space and time.

Alphonse de Lamartine
Space, Good Man, Manners

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

William Cowper
Moral, Courtesy, Manners
William Cowper, “Conversation”

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Walter Raleigh
Manners, Ill, Unborn
Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.560

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

Sir Fulke Greville
Ignorance, Manners, Unbecoming

What once were vices are manners now.

Seneca the Younger
Vices, Manners

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Samuel Johnson
Manners, Politeness, Benevolence
Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.8598, Delphi Classics

The early worm deserves the bird.

Robert A. Heinlein
Bird, Moral, Manners

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Firsts, Courtesy, Manners
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.330, Library of America

Bad manners make a journalist.

Oscar Wilde
Manners, Journalist, Bad Manners
Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

Nathaniel Parker Willis
Study, Manners, Politeness

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

Molly Ivins
Expression, People, Manners

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

Mignon McLaughlin
Cookies, Lasts, Manners

I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.

Maureen Johnson
May, Manners, Lunatic
John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.68, Penguin

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Morality, Moral, Manners

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

Margaret Mitchell
Yankees, Manners, Accents
Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.214, Hamilton Books

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

Malcolm Forbes
People, Looks, Manners

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

Malcolm Forbes
Drinking, Moral, Manners

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

Louise Colet
Manners, Discord
"Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 108), 1886.

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

Lori Foster
Boys, Manners, Beats
Lori Foster (2006). “Jude's Law”, p.212, Zebra Books

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

Lord Chesterfield
Defense, Courtesy, Manners
"The Modern Chesterfield".

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

Lord Chesterfield
Good Man, Return, Manners
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.121

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.

John Boyne
Heart, Reason, Manners
John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.66, Random House

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good Man, Manners, Good Manners

Manners form the great charm of women.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Manners, Charm, Form

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