Top 1200 Miss Manners Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

I feel a special kinship for our military. Because, unfortunately, I became a wartime president. And committed our military in the defense of our country to difficult assignments. I tell people all the time, I don't miss much about being president; I do miss looking in the eyes of people who volunteered to serve. And so not only do I feel a kinship, I feel an obligation and a duty to help.

Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

The biggest thing is you cannot be afraid to miss the game-winning shot. It's not that you want to make it; it's that you're not afraid to miss it. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong. You have to have amnesia. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong.

Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

Song Joong-ki is known for his sincerity and manners. He is younger than me, but I thought I learned many things from him.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?" "But are you?" "Course I's happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you." I frown at Miss Celia and I make sure she can see it. Because ain't that white people for you, wondering if they are happy ENOUGH.

One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane. I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain and I can see Daniel waving goodbye. God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes. They say Spain is pretty though I've never been, well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen. And he should know, he's been there enough. Lord I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.

I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.

The best advice I've got was - "All you have is the process. All you have is the journey of making something. Once you're done you have absolutely no control on how it's received, or if people like it or hate it, or what is done with it. As long as you enjoy the process, then you'll always be happy." I really feel like that's important advice. Sometimes we get so focused on the results that we miss doing it - we miss the adventure of being in the midst of something because we're looking too far ahead.

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart.

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Picking on people is not my sort of humour, but I think there's quite a lot of it around. We're slowly turning into a nation of bullies; manners have gone out of the window.

I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Money doesn't mean that you are educated, have manners, class or even have good hygiene. All it means is . . . you have money!

I like good manners, old-fashioned courting, I like being wooed.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

My parents were very strict about manners and being polite to others. I brought my own children up that way, too.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

There's a real intense thing about manners in the South, a real prescribed way to be a woman.

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

Once a big loss has happened it is part of the picture forever. Not something you "get over." While each loss has felt specific, one thing I miss with each loss is entirely selfish, I miss the way a particular person saw me, understood me. But part of the challenge of being alive is to remain curious in any circumstance and this has helped me with grief. I want to feel all the contours and contradictions of living.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.