Top 1200 Miss Manners Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

You stand up to that challenging shot, you put yourself into that shot, and you pour yourself into it confidently. Stand up and commit yourself completely. If you miss it, you miss it certainly. You've done everything you can.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.

Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it's still very difficult for me to read. That means it is hard for me to pick up my Bible and read it like I used to, and I miss that very much.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

It had been a great career. I mean, how many guys can say they averaged two points a game in their careers? It's too bad he's retiring too soon. The league is going to miss him. The fans are going to miss him. A real classy person and a great guy.

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she observed, the juice all ran out nobody knew where, sucking [only I think she used some more recondite word] was in fact the only way of enjoying oranges; but then there was the unpleasant association with a ceremony frequently gone through by little babies; and so, after dessert, in orange season, Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty used to rise up, possess themselves each of an orange in silence, and withdraw to the privacy of their own rooms to indulge in sucking oranges.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Thank goodness I was brought up with the grounding of my parents, and taught manners.

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

Coming to New York is like a big hug, everyone is so welcoming. There's something about here, everyone makes you feel so at home. I miss my family of course, but I don't miss London that much. I was worried, but I feel really at home. Everyone says that who comes here from London, but I didn't believe them.

I miss dogs, man. I always had a family pet, always had a dog growing up. It was almost equivalent to the prison sentence, having something taken away from me for three years. I want a dog just for the sake of my kids, but also me. I miss my companions.

I have 16 plays, and we don't ever do subtitles. You can't do subtitles in the theater, so I was like, 'I'm not gonna do subtitles.' You'll never lose the story. There might be a little joke that you might miss, but you'll never miss the story, even in the Spanglish of it.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.

Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

You know what I miss? The energy of live audiences, because there's no substitute for that exchange that you get in real time when you're sharing a moment, a same with people who are in that same time and space with you. I really just love that. I enjoy it when I get to travel and make speeches now. I like that a lot too. But that's probably the thing that I miss the most about hosting my own show.

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

For me, all my negative thoughts that I have about, 'How did you miss that pitch? Why did you miss that pitch? You shouldn't have missed that pitch.' I just kind of sit there and kind of crush it up, and once I'm done doing that... I just kind of toss it aside.

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.

The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had written Forty Words for Sorrow. Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent. If you miss Forty Words for Sorrow, you'll miss one of best novels of 2001.

Not missing games, miss one game due to injury in my career, and that even hurt me to miss that game, but I just love to get out there and compete, both ends of the ball, and I don't think I'm afraid to take the big shot. If I'm 2-for-15, I'm not afraid to take that shot, make it 3-for-16.

Every time people ask me, 'Did you know that you would be Miss Universe?', my answer is, 'I didn't know that I would be Miss Universe because I didn't know it was possible for someone like me.'

Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal shame, something it seems she would want us to forget (but no one would forget). (Maybe an interesting "discussion question" for readers of Complicated Grief might be, "What do Terry Barton and Miss Havisham have in common?"?)

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

Do not miss a single chance - not one single opportunity - to tell someone how wonderful they are, how special they are, how important to you they are, how incredible as a person they are, how beautiful they are inside and out. Do not miss a single opening in which to insert such a comment, genuinely felt and genuinely meant.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) in another very famous line: "Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art."

The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

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

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.

I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled something about making a joke and that of course one needed tea always, at every hour of the day or night.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.