Top 1046 Manners Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Bad manners make a journalist.

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

Manners are the ornament of action.

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

Manners make often fortunes.

Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

Beware of a man with manners.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

Teach a child good manners during babyhood.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Teach that asshole some manners.

Manners form the great charm of women.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

There is no nobility with bad manners.

Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

Dressing well is an expression of manners.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

You lose your manners when you are poor.

Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe.

The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Forget love. Try good manners.

What times! What manners!

O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Morals are three-quarters manners.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

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

Good manners are never passé.

Dressing well is a form of good manners.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Manners are really very important to me.

Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Good manners don't cost nothing.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.