Top 90 Quotes About Bad Manners
#1. On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.
Ilona Andrews
#2. It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
David Ogilvy
#3. Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.
Philippe Aries
#4. On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners.
Charles Dickens
#5. As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... all of which I've earned a living doing.
Audrey Hepburn
#6. Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#7. Here's a bit of advice... When a woman invites you into her home... and you don't seduce her... don't seduce another woman, darling, certainly not under the same roof. It's bad manners - ungallant to say the least,
Donald Margulies
#8. War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!
Graydon Carter
#9. My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.
Rumi
#10. There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
Steven Brust
#11. It's the worst of bad manners to ridicule the small gesture ... Small, stepwise changes in personal habits aren't trivial. Ultimately they will, or won't, add up to having been the thing that mattered.
Barbara Kingsolver
#12. I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
Bill Nighy
#14. I admired her lack of compunction, the courage of her bad manners, the energy of simple rage. Throwing a bag of spaghetti had a simplicity to it, a recklessness, a careless grandeur. It got things over with. I was a long way, then, from being able to do anything like it myself.
Margaret Atwood
#16. Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.
Charlaine Harris
#17. Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
Flannery O'Connor
#18. Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift
#19. Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
Margaret Millar
#21. Dragons were notoriously finicky about whom they ate, and thought it the height of bad manners to be kept waiting by their selected fare.
Sully Tarnish
#22. New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
Gertrude Atherton
#23. This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
Bryan Cranston
#26. Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. You don't get to be the president of anything if you have bad manners.
Daven Anderson
#28. The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Barbara Kingsolver
#29. It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. It's the height of bad manners to sleep with somebody less than three times.
Mark Boxer
#31. A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
Robert A. Heinlein
#33. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. I
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#34. Am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#35. He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn't done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.
Kate Chisman
#36. Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.
George Santayana
#37. In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.
George Mikes
#38. Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
Rosalind Wiseman
#39. The great secret ... is not having bad manners or good manners ... but having the same manner for all human souls.
George Bernard Shaw
#40. He remembered that his mother had a strong distaste for suicide, feeling that it combined three things of which she strongly disapproved - bad manners, cowardice, and sin.
John Steinbeck
#41. If a friend had a coronary scare and finally started exercising three days a week, who would hound him about the other four days? It's the worst of bad manners - and self-protection, I think, in a nervously cynical society - to ridicule the small gesture.
Barbara Kingsolver
#43. A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James
#44. The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
Patrick Kavanagh
#45. The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.
Judith Martin
#46. There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.
Letitia Baldrige
#47. To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
#48. Bastard had the bad manners to die before we were through talking to him.
Maya Banks
#49. You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
Lillian Gish
#50. Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Bryant McGill
#51. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
Myrtle Reed
#53. I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox.
Anna Freeman
#55. By no means do I think that playing games online is wrong or rude. However, constantly sending requests is an act of bad manners as well as being very annoying to the one receiving them.
John Patrick Hickey
#56. Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
Miller Williams
#57. It's bad manners to say " i love you"
With a mouth full of lies.
Unknown
#58. Granny said tardiness was nothing but bad manners, and that people with bad manners lacked character. Erlene
Scott Pratt
#59. But bad manners or vulgar gestures can sometimes have a touch of poetry about them, just enough not to arouse one's indignation.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#61. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
George Bernard Shaw
#63. The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.
Kahlil Gibran
#64. Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.
Judith Viorst
#65. Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker
#66. The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
Socrates
#67. It is said that the hallmark of a gentleman is that he is only ever rude intentionally. Arthur Bryant was no gentleman. His rudeness came from an inability to cloak his opinions in even the most cursory civility. He believed in good manners at the meal table and bad manners almost everywhere else.
Christopher Fowler
#68. Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
Aldous Huxley
#69. Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#70. Greatness is so aggressive, so dramatic! Don't you think it is almost bad manners?
Ernesto Sabato
#71. Doing good makes you great. Bad things take away from good ones. Practicing Netiquette is all good.
David Chiles
#72. Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. Jean Laffite was a sexy bad boy with a gentleman's manners and an air of barely suppressed danger. Every girl's secret dreamboat in other words. We always say we want a nice, hardworking, decent guy but we're lying to ourselves. - DJ Jaco
Suzanne Johnson
#74. One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
Henry David Thoreau
#75. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.
Raymond Chandler
#76. Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.
Toks Olagundoye
#77. I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.
Raymond Chandler
#78. The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.
Gabirol
#79. Nessy had never believed that fear and respect were the same thing. Nor did she believe that the castle's manners were beyond redemption, for although her accursed home was mostly bad it was at least a little bit good. She hoped it would be good enough.
A. Lee Martinez
#80. Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.
Malcolm Forbes
#81. I flick my turn signal on out of dumb habit, and because the end of the world's no excuse for bad driving manners.
Alexandra Bracken
#82. I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
Nancy Friday
#83. It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners!
Louisa May Alcott
#84. I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners
Hiroko Sakai
#86. Keep the personal, personal and do not be guilty of spreading bad feelings.
John Patrick Hickey
#87. I've never turned blue in someone else's
bathroom. I consider that the height of bad
manners.
Keith Richards
#88. Alexia had, in part, compensated for a lack of soul through the liberal application of manners. This was rather like donning an outfit consisting entirely of accessories, but Alexia maintained that proper conduct was never a bad thing.
Gail Carriger
#89. The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
#90. I didn't need to transform after all.
My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.
And maybe that's not so bad after all.
Holly Smale
