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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.
I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.
I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you.
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
I don't accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.
When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?
It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.
as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.
My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.
As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.
My grandmother used to teach me that it's bad manners to invite yourself to somebody's house.
Unfortunately, chivalry seems to be on the decline, but let's hope that manners can remain important. I, for one, will certainly be an evangelist with it.
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners.
I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.
I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.
My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good 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.
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.
For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.
I've never turned blue in someone else's
bathroom. I consider that the height of bad
manners.
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
Any guy I date has to have manners - you know, get the door. And he has to have confidence and be secure in who he is.
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.
