Manners Quotes - Page 6

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

Beware of a man with manners.

I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.