Quotes About Having Bad Manners

#1. 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

#2. The great secret ... is not having bad manners or good manners ... but having the same manner for all human souls.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

Rosalind Wiseman

#6. I've never turned blue in someone else's
bathroom. I consider that the height of bad
manners.

Keith Richards

#7. Keep the personal, personal and do not be guilty of spreading bad feelings.

John Patrick Hickey

#8. Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

Elvis Costello

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

Hiroko Sakai

#12. Bad manners does not mean they make bad company.

Kelly R. Michaels

#13. Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Benjamin Banneker

#18. 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

#19. It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners!

Louisa May Alcott

#20. The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Wendell Willkie

#21. I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox.

Anna Freeman

#22. 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

#23. The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Barbara Kingsolver

#24. Even when I have bad manners... I'm still polite!

Jose N. Harris

#25. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Myrtle Reed

#26. Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Bryant McGill

#27. You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Lillian Gish

#28. Bastard had the bad manners to die before we were through talking to him.

Maya Banks

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Walt Whitman

#32. There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.

Letitia Baldrige

#33. 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

#34. The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

Patrick Kavanagh

#35. A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Henry James

#36. Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

Patricia Briggs