Best Manners Quotes

#1. When you met people, they were on their best behavior, smiles and best manners. You couldn't tell what lurked beneath the surface

Chet Williamson

#2. Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

Ronan Farrow

#3. Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best.

Paul Babicki

#5. Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back in the box. . . ." Nina

Amor Towles

#6. The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

Claudius Claudianus

#7. You'll never find a worse critic than the one inside your own skin, or a more difficult one to silence," I told Pieras, by means of explanation. "The best you can hope for is to teach it some manners.

Lisa Shearin

#8. [Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Wisdom tells us that the best time for silence is when we are mad or upset.

John Patrick Hickey

#10. Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.

Jonathan Swift

#11. Vijaya prefers to eat alone. Rob ushered her into the room and held a chair for her, then sat across from her. "Many Indians regard eating as something that should be done in private. Considering the table manners of some of our best people, one can see their point."
Patricia Frances Rowell

Patricia Frances Rowell

#12. The Count took pride in wearing a well-tailored jacket; but he took greater pride in knowing that a gentleman's presence was best announced by his bearing, his remarks, and his manners. Not by the cut of his coat. Yes,

Amor Towles

#13. The best alternative to good manners is fast reflexes.

Anonymous

#14. The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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

Henry David Thoreau

#16. A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.

Catharine Sedgwick

#17. Modesty is a state of the heart. It veils the tongue. It clothes us in good manners. It envelops us with the best of behaviour.

T.J. Bowes

#18. I'm youth, I'm joy!" Peter sang out. "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know at all who or what he was. This Hook though to be the best of good manners.

J.M. Barrie

#19. A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield

#20. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift

#21. I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.

Mario Balotelli

#22. - Good manners are the best inheritance. - Well I think the best inheritance is lots of money. But one day I'll be very rich - said he who had a demonic grandeur: his strength was bursting.

Clarice Lispector

#23. Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Clarence Thomas

#24. I liked me and I had been well drilled in good manners by Aunt Penny, who had often told me the best manners meant being thoughtful, a good listener and watching what everyone else was doing and deciding if it was worth trying.

Merabeth James

#25. Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Christopher Morley

#26. Use Discretion: It is proper netiquette to use discretion, best behavior, in all online activity.

David Chiles

#27. The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older - intelligence and good manners.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#28. Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

Malcolm Forbes