A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German - Novelist
August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

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

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

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.

Lemmy

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

Candice Swanepoel

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

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

Lillian Gish

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

Benjamin Banneker

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Bryant H. McGill

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Jane Austen

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