Top 100 Quotes About Good Manners
#1. Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that statement was plain to see. Reacher put the guy out of misery. A single shot, close range, behind the ear. An unnecessary round expended, but good manners had a price
Lee Child
#3. The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire
#4. They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn't back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It's good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.
Rick Riordan
#5. Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.
Louise Fitzhugh
#6. Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.
P. J. O'Rourke
#8. I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak.
John Steinbeck
#9. The best alternative to good manners is fast reflexes.
Anonymous
#10. Horthy was no more of an anti-Semite than good manners required, and this was not something he may have wanted himself, but his duty was to preserve an independent Hungary, and if putting Jews into labor battalions was what was needed, he was going to do what was needed. For
George Friedman
#11. A thank-you card," repeated Alice. "Yes. I know, I know, it's teaching them good manners and everything, but I sort of hate those thank-you cards. I always imagine the kids groaning and having to be forced into writing them. It makes me feel like an elderly aunt.
Liane Moriarty
#12. Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons
#13. The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Paul Theroux
#14. Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.
Alice Miller
#15. Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.
Lord Chesterfield
#16. Everyday Graces: A Child's Book of Good Manners, written by Karen Santorum.[73]
James C. Dobson
#17. My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners.
Matt Bomer
#18. The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.
Bertrand Russell
#19. Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.
Catharine Beecher
#20. God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.
Mary Doria Russell
#21. Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
Alice Duer Miller
#22. 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
#24. For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.
Letitia Baldrige
#25. Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#26. The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour
Hugh Massingberd
#27. Honestly, not enough people know how to use good manners as a weapon.
Rachel Hawkins
#28. We're okay." I don't know why I say that. Sometimes good manners are a curse.
Paul Acampora
#30. 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
#31. Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.
Patricia Duncker
#32. 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
#33. He had shrewd, on the spot judgement about human nature. Good sense with good manners and the practice of contentment made up in his view a large part of wisdom.
Theresa Whistler
#34. We all need good manners, like our friends from the zoo!
Lorraine Loria
#35. Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.
Lynn Coady
#37. Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
Lord Chesterfield
#38. Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
Alfred Agache
#39. Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all else has fled. On
Margaret George
#41. Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. - 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
#43. I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.
Sylvester Stallone
#44. Insincerity had never come easily to her, but good manners required it on occasion, even if a superhuman effort was needed.
Alexander McCall Smith
#45. Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#46. Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'
Cy Twombly
#47. As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
Marilyn Monroe
#48. Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
Amy Vanderbilt
#49. Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.
Lynne Truss
#50. Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.
Emily Post
#52. I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners.
"Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction.
Mark Twain
#53. Note, Religion teaches good manners, and obliges us to give honour to those to whom honour is due.
Matthew Henry
#54. Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
Robert Grosseteste
#55. I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.
Katie Couric
#56. I had never come across a talking cat before, but good manners, as my father used to say, cost nothing.
Jasper Fforde
#57. 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
#58. Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.
Letitia Baldrige
#59. I launched into my speech, it took me a few seconds to realize that the only one listening was max (the dog) but at least he had the good manners to stop chewing the toilet brush and pay attention.
Sammi Carter
#60. it was a point of good manners not to sit with a clique of the same friends all the time, and it meant that conversation at dinner had to be open and general rather than close and gossipy
Philip Pullman
#61. Good manners will do that; turn a situation around. You got to treat people like people.
Lauren Beukes
#62. Good manners do more for a man that good looks.
E.W. Howe
#63. Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.
Mason Cooley
#64. In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
Russell Brand
#65. - Ah nivir bother asking ma father who ah kin shag, ah idly observe.
- Glad tae hear it, Sylvia says in clipped tones as Ali stifles a giggle.
- Me neither ... groans Matty, - ... unless it's muh ma.
- That's only good manners, ah shrugs.
Irvine Welsh
#66. The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue.
Billy Graham
#67. It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.
Archibald Marwizi
#68. Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full of instinctive wisdom and natural good manners and unself-conscious grace and a deep, articulate understanding of death.
Kingsley Amis
#70. No, Emma, your amiable young man can be amiable only in French, not in English. He may be very 'aimable,' have very good manners, and be very agreeable; but he can have no English delicacy towards the feelings of other people: nothing really amiable about him.
Jane Austen
#71. Upbeat people have no need of pleasantries. They barely notice them. Only the tired and depressed truly appreciate good manners, and cling to them in desperation.
Mike Collier
#72. For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#73. Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
Fanny Jackson Coppin
#74. Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
Roger Moore
#75. There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#76. In love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.
Ilka Chase
#77. Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
P. J. O'Rourke
#78. Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker
#79. Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.
Elsa Maxwell
#80. As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.
Leon Krier
#81. Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
Barbara Walters
#82. Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
#83. Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.
David Rakoff
#84. Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
Mark Twain
#85. 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
#86. If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
Bobby Bowden
#87. We live in a period of great polarities: in art, in public policy, in morality. In poetry, art seems, at one extreme, rhymed good manners, and at the other, chaos.
Louise Gluck
#88. Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?
Quentin Crisp
#89. The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.
Kurt Vonnegut
#90. Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Bennett Cerf
#91. Without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible
George Bernard Shaw
#92. The most elementary of good manners ... at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.
Laura Esquivel
#94. Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.
Moazzam Shaikh
#95. The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.
Gabirol
#96. A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin
#97. Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Christopher Morley
#98. Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
William Shakespeare
#99. Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners
Ibn Rajab
#100. The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
