Manners Quotes - Page 8

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.

Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go by. It seems to me like that is a new piece of bad manners. Probably. Generally I assume that anything that happens now happened to Adam and Eve also.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.

I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]

Civility is not simply about manners.

Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

Teach that asshole some manners.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.