Manners Matter Quotes

#1. Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory out allowing for arbitrary power but be excessive, brusque use of it by a particular individual.

Robert J. Allison

#2. If "Manners maketh man," as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself, no matter what they say."
(Englishman in New York)

Sting

#3. I worry about how aggressive and vicious our discourse has become. I don't think all is lost, however. I believe that there are ways that we can get our public debates back on track, because civility and manners are a matter of choice.

Dana Perino

#4. Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

Loretta Young

#5. Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

Langston Hughes

#6. No matter who it is or what you think of them, never rejoice in the pain of others. It lowers you to a level you should not be at.

John Patrick Hickey

#7. Project is a self-contained phrase and may or may not be capable of elaboration.

R.K. Narayan

#8. Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.

B.R. Ambedkar

#9. I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners.

Charles Dickens

#11. Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much
all of it wrong.

Tamora Pierce

#12. I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one replied, "Men can't brew. Chicha made by men would only make gas in the belly. You are a funny man! Beer is women's work."

Alan D. Eames

#13. When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

David McCullough

#14. Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.

Albert Hadley

#15. puts her little finger in my face. "I don't speak Behemoth, so I'll talk slow. You should learn some manners before the villagers chase you with fiery torches. You shouldn't go around putting your hands on people, no matter how hot you are.

Alexa Riley

#16. I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manners, or literature, or politics, or religion, or any other matter that is projected into the field of our notice and interest, is a most rare thing -- if it has indeed ever existed.

Mark Twain

#17. Elegance is like manners. You can't be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it's another matter.

Aldo Gucci

#18. Quality ... has to do with intention.

Elliott Erwitt

#19. It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

Kate Reardon

#20. My fans are like no other. Completely original people.

Yelawolf

#21. The day was cold but sunny. The city was decorated with holiday flags.

Sergei Dovlatov

#22. Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

Junot Diaz

#23. Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

P. J. O'Rourke

#24. Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what everyone else is doing. But they make the world a better place, Sugar Honey, you can trust me on that.

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#25. Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

George Washington

#26. Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Emily Post

#27. Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

Charles Koch