Top 100 Quotes About Manners
#1. For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.
John Steinbeck
#2. So long as you minded your manners and kept your weapons concealed, they let you enter and leave in peace. Those who broke the one house rule of "No Spill Blood" quickly found themselves leaving in pieces.' (Gallagher)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes of white ladies, as if out to complete their strategic education with the knowledge of how the males of an alien race were conquered and subdued.
Karen Blixen
#4. Teach that asshole some manners."
I winked at her and smiled. "Anything for you, baby.
Jamie McGuire
#5. The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
#6. E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
Jeff Bezos
#7. Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.
Bono
#8. When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#9. I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox.
Anna Freeman
#10. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#11. Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.
Gurney Williams
#12. The internet is insecure by default. Netiquette and security certificates add a level of safety.
David Chiles
#13. Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
Elsa Maxwell
#14. But he found him as he had seen him six weeks earlier, that is to say calm, firm and full of the distant good manners that make up the most impenetrable of barriers separating a well-bred man from one of the people.
Alexandre Dumas
#15. I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
Hector Hugh Munro
#16. One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.
Kenneth Clark
#17. Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"
"I don't know, but I bet they're having more fun than I am.
A.A. Milne
#19. Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit ...
Stella Gibbons
#20. 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
#21. We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#22. I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.
Bill Kaulitz
#23. The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.
Gever Tulley
#24. When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.
Patti Page
#25. The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.
Kate Simon
#26. Happiness lies not in the position, descent, or any property, but, that happiness lies in religion, science, manners, and achieve my goals.
Rifhi Siddiq
#27. Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.
Lord Chesterfield
#28. The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.
P. J. O'Rourke
#29. Okay, I cannot say this without being very direct. If you are looking for a spouse or even a romance through social media, you are looking for trouble.
John Patrick Hickey
#30. It is proper Netiquette to post pictures with status updates to make them more engaging.
David Chiles
#31. The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
Henry Walter Bates
#32. Seriously, honey," I said. "Your manners are appalling. Go fuck yourself.
Kylie Scott
#33. History, well read, is simply humility well told, in many manners.
Adam Gopnik
#34. You must forgive my cousin, Mr. Carroll; his manners are deplorable."
Colonel Fitzwilliam feigned offence and turned to the butler while addressing his cousin's barb. "Mr. Carroll and I have an understanding, don't we, man? He knows I prefer to walk in unannounced.
KaraLynne Mackrory
#35. Lord Chesterfield advises his son "to speak often, but not to speak much at a time; so that if he does not please, he will not at least displease to any great extent."
Rousseau tells us, that, "persons who know little, talk a great deal, while those who know a great deal say very little.
Arthur Martine
#36. The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen
#37. Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.
John McGahern
#38. The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners ...
Natalie Goldberg
#39. Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
M.J. Rose
#40. Network etiquette is our participation in groups. Following Netiquette rules is a contribution.
David Chiles
#41. Posting something that is encouraging and well done compared to something that is trashy and common is the difference between eating a fine meal or the scraps from making that meal.
John Patrick Hickey
#42. Rab: Like a wee chip, Burney son?
Burney: Stick your chips up your arse!
Mary: Heeey, hey, hey, hey - manners.
Burney: Please.
Ian Pattison
#43. Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
William Arthur Ward
#44. The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Barbara Kingsolver
#45. The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Mercy Otis Warren
#46. If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners.
Gary Paulsen
#47. It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.
Andrew Levkoff
#49. He reminded me of the Viking god Thor, if Thor had been a reclusive federal game warden from Texas with excellent manners.
Penny Reid
#50. The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
Alexander Pope
#51. Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.
Alexander Pope
#52. She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Louisa May Alcott
#53. They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.
Terry Pratchett
#54. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds;the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
Myrtle Reed
#57. To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
Hannah More
#58. A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
John Dryden
#59. What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.
Terry Wogan
#60. Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.
Mark Twain
#61. 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
#63. Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.
Lori Foster
#64. We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
Oliver Hudson
#65. Manners. Manners will get you through anything.
Ronan Farrow
#66. Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.
Geoff Dyer
#67. When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.
Paul Johnson
#68. Rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.
Elizabeth Bowen
#70. Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.
Pythagoras
#72. Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.
Jane Austen
#73. If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man.
John Milton
#74. This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#76. A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.
C. D. Broad
#77. Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. Come on, where did you learn to fight? Miss Manners' School for Girls? My baby sister could hit harder than you when she was three years old. Damn, if you're going to turn Daimon, the least you could do is take a few fighting lessons so you can make my boring job more interesting. (Wulf)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#79. Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. They said I looked like a foreign devil; they said I spoke like a foreign devil. I made mistakes in manners, and I didn't know delicacies that had grown up since my father left. They wouldn't have me. You can believe it or not - I'm less foreign here than I was in China.
John Steinbeck
#81. Fred!" the nurse said, though they had never met. "How are we today?" Reading the nurse's name tag, Mr. Bennet replied with fake enthusiasm, "Bernard! We're mourning the death of manners and the rise of overly familiar discourse. How are you?
Curtis Sittenfeld
#82. Dressing well is an expression of manners.
Tom Ford
#83. Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.
Emily Post
#84. In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were simply habitual.
Mary Doria Russell
#85. A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
Jeffrey Kluger
#86. The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
Jean De La Bruyere
#87. The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's also where children learn the lessons that families teach: manners, cooperation, communication, self-control, values.
Doris Christopher
#88. He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins.
Dana Marton
#89. Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Evelyn Waugh
#90. Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.
Samuel Johnson
#91. The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#92. Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Colley Cibber
#93. Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's.
The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot ...
Allen Tate
#94. Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn't improve one's manners!
Eugene O'Neill
#95. The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best.
Paul Babicki
#96. I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Henry Fielding
#97. After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.
Gail Carriger
#98. The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
Roald Dahl
#99. We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners
Hannibal
#100. The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,
mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.
Henry David Thoreau
