Best 387 quotes in «manners quotes» category

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

I found out water can be drunk straight.

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

I love men's clothes, but that doesn't make me a weirdo.

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of arent aware of manners and other ways of life and common decency.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.

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

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

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

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

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

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

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.

Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.

Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

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

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

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

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

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

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

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.

Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Belive that on occasion that much death can become tedious.

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.

Manners are the ornament of action.

Morals are three-quarters manners.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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

My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.

Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

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

People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

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

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

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.