Manners Quotes - Page 7

A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.

What times! What manners!

To use bad taste, you have to know the rules of good taste. I've always thanked my mother for that. She taught how to eat with proper table manners and all that stuff, to the point of rebellion. But I couldn't have rebelled from it if I didn't know it.

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.

The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its sensibility to the extent of showing some figures much as Molière, for instance, did, as absurd or detestable.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me

Better too much form than too little.

Good manners are a part of good morals.