Top 1200 Bad Manners Quotes & Sayings

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

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.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

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

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

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.

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

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

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.

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

What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others

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

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country? The answer is simple. We no longer have manners to speak of.

I don't accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!

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

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.

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

There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

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

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

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.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

My grandmother used to teach me that it's bad manners to invite yourself to somebody's house.

Bad manners make a journalist.

Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

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

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

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.

I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.

American manners are different than British manners.

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

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

There is no nobility with bad manners.

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.

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.

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

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.