A Quote by Wendell Willkie

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Wendell Willkie

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Wendell Willkie
American - Lawyer
February 18, 1892 - October 8, 1944

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

Margaret Mead

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

Lillian Gish

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

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

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

Benjamin Banneker

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

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

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

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

The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.

Lynne Truss

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

Abraham Maslow

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