Quotes with manners

  • Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
  • This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
  • 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.
  • Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
  • Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
  • No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
  • When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
  • Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
  • To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.''
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  • James Russell Lowell I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Henry James A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Oscar Wilde Bad manners make a journalist.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Simone Weil Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Benjamin Banneker Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
    As quoted in Friends Intelligencer Vol. XI
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bill Kelly Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
    Blast from the Past
    Bill Kelly
     
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  • Amy Vanderbilt Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
    Amy Vanderbilt
    American author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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  • Joseph Joubert Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Anthony Trollope High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Edith Wharton I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Enid Bagnold 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
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Edmund Burke It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Algernon Sidney Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
    Algernon Sidney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Emily Post 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
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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