A Quote by Karen Marie Moning

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

Karen Marie Moning

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Civilized Common Dating Days Encounters Good Manners Most Old Old-Fashioned Pine Practiced Should Think

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Karen Marie Moning
American - Author
Born: November 1, 1964

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

If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

Owen Feltham

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

Kurt Vonnegut

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

Nelson Mandela

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

Alexander McCall Smith

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

Philip Massinger

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.