Best 387 quotes in «manners quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.

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.

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

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

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

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

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

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

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 just a formal expression of how you treat people.

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.

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

Morals are three-quarters manners.

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

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

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, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.

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

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.

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

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.

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, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.

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

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

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

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.