A Quote by Benjamin Banneker

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

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Benjamin Banneker
American - Scientist
November 9, 1731 - October 9, 1806

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Flannery O'Connor

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Lillian Gish

There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech

Flannery O'Connor

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Bryant H. McGill

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

Nancy Friday

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

George Bernard Shaw

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

Horace Mann

Communication is crucial. That's why young teams aren't usually good because their communication's not good because they're not confident in the communication.

Jared Dudley

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Henry David Thoreau

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering effective self-expression and communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness, mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community and concern for the health of our society is also involved in civility.

P. M. Forni

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