Manners Quotes

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

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

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

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners

Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

There is no nobility with bad manners.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

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

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

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

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

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

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

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

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

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

Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.