Top 1200 Miss Manners Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting up and going hiking and going to the beach - that's L.A. culture and it's awesome and I miss it. Toronto culture is wonderful, but I miss L.A.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

So much of the game is mental, and that's one thing that I've always wanted to be good at. That if I miss a shot or make a bad play, to never let your opponent see that you are in duress or upset - that they've won in any way. So if I make a big game-time bucket or if I miss a shot, you'll see the same mannerisms. I move on to the next play.

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

We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

It's so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated.

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

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

When my son, Jack, was four, I had to make a trip to Los Angeles. I asked him if he was going to miss me. 'Not so much,' Jack told me. 'You're not going to miss me?' I said. Jack shook his head, and he said, 'Love means you can never be apart.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

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

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.

Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself.

Sometimes you need to step away from the game. I've had to do that in different manners in my career.

I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

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

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners.

I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would come out. There's one Bon Iver song called 'Blood Bank' that is more representative of an older lineage of songs, which I like and I sort of miss. But it just doesn't happen anymore for me.

I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

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

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

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

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

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.

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

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.

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

I'm a big believer in manners and respect: that one should never do to another what you wouldn't wish for yourself.

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

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

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.