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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
Aline: "He's cute, for a Downworlder" Sebastian: "You'll have to forgive her; she has the face of an angel and the manners of a Moloch demon
The seasons change their manners, as the year
Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.
I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying to impress me.
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember.
Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.
Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style
To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.
I think being able to teach your children manners and to be respectful is one thing that you can do regardless to what class you come from or what religious belief you have.
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.
I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.
It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.
Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.
The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.
Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This is a game, not war.
