Manners Quotes

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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker

Good, Money, Friends

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Good, Society

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin

Call, Savages, Ours

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Others, Support, Fine

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

Time, Nothing, Haste

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post

Good, Feelings, Others

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Good, Bad, Sometimes

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne

Respect, Others, Ourselves

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mirror, Shows, Portrait

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Good, Bad, Patient

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
Margaret Mead

Respect, Dealing, Agree

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire

Good, Learning, Today

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

Made, Clothes, Improve

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

Seek, Improve, Sugar

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell

Equality, Human, Revolution

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good, Mean, Mankind

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith

Love, Everything, Friends

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman

Bad, Real, Humanity

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

Important, Revolution, Moral

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

Character, Style, Simplicity

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley

Nature, Drunk, Fighting

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Enid Bagnold

Marriage, Wedding, Real

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honore de Balzac

Nation, Hypocrisy

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

Good, Car, Same

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Hard, Easy

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Art, Knowledge, Greatest

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
John Ruskin

Heart, Real, Person

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
Usain Bolt

Good, Morning, Person

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift

Great, Bad, Nothing

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Men, Society, Important

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