Manners Quotes
+3Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
- Horace Mann
+3We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
- Voltaire
+1Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
+1Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
- Honore De Balzac
+1Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
- Mary Wortley
+1Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1The basis of good manners is self reliance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
- E V Lucas
+1Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.
- Albert Guirard
+1The society of women is the element of good manners.
- Johann Wolfgang
+1Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
- Sydney Smith
+1Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
- Eric Hoffer
+1Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
- Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
+1Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
+1A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
- Oscar Wilde
+1He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.
- English proverb
+1Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.
- Cicero
+1Politeness is the art of choosing among one’s real thoughts.
- Abel Stevens
+1Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.
- Margaret Walker
+1Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
- Clarence Thomas
+1The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
- Wendell L. Willkie
+1Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
- Confucius
+1The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
- Fran Lebowitz
+1Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
- Mary Wilson
+1A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
- Jean Bruyere
+1The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
- Fred Astaire
+1Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
- Will Cuppy
+1What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.
- Solomon ibn Gabirol
+1A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
- Livy
+1A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
- Oliver Herford
+1There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.
- Laurence Sterne
+1Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
- Samuel Johnson
+1I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
- Tennessee Williams
+1At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
- W Somerset Maugham
+1Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
- James Russell Lowell
+1This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
- William Lyon
