Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. Votes: 4
Laurence SterneManners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents. Votes: 4
Thomas LickonaManners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. Votes: 3
Lynne TrussManners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeManners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. Votes: 3
Evelyn WaughManners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine. Votes: 3
Quentin CrispManners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends.... Votes: 3
George Bernard ShawManners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close. Votes: 3
Judith MartinGood manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. Votes: 2
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. Votes: 2
Lord ChesterfieldOn the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. Votes: 2
George MikesOf course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. Votes: 2
Thomas HardyClothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. Votes: 2
Henry Ward BeecherPoliteness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind. Votes: 0
Julia Ward HoweGood manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyGood manners will open doors that even the best pick-up lines can't. Votes: 0
Thoughts of a real manFrequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldFrequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. Votes: 0
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldRespect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners Votes: 0
Laurence SterneThe Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. Votes: 0
Paul TherouxSpiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheGentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners. Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker WillisTheir manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareModesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. Votes: 0
Amos Bronson AlcottAmazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. Votes: 0
Lauren Willig[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . Votes: 0
Algernon SidneyWe should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyComedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners. Votes: 0
Noel CowardFit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareSculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonI spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge... Votes: 0
Abdullah ibn MubarakGood manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others. Votes: 0
Alice Duer MillerDon't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them. Votes: 0
Apollonius of TyanaIt is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. Votes: 0
Roger AschamGood manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them. Votes: 0
Fanny Jackson CoppinIn a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts. Votes: 0
L. Ron HubbardThe ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners. Votes: 0
Mark TwainI always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners. Votes: 0
David OgilvyI think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. Votes: 0
Evelyn WaughWe evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners Votes: 0
HannibalNothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing. Votes: 0
Hugh BlairCottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldThe most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. Votes: 0
Edmund BurkeThat bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachI may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners. Votes: 0
Maureen JohnsonPride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners. Votes: 0
Jonathan SwiftConventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. Votes: 0
Katharine Fullerton GerouldA car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinThe keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. Votes: 0
Patrick KavanaghThe child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerWhen people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners. Votes: 0
Paul JohnsonSimplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe. Votes: 0
Edward GibbonPropriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliGood manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. Votes: 0
Bill KellyIn the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners. Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterI was raised right â I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners. Votes: 0
Kathy GriffinI love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithFashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time. Votes: 0
P. J. O'RourkeI've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners. Votes: 0
Keith RichardsInfants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. Votes: 0
George HerbertTo make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. Votes: 0
Emily PostHappiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. Votes: 0
Christopher MorleyWe sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonNot to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners. Votes: 0
Toks OlagundoyeGood manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style Votes: 0
Coco ChanelWhen one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws. Votes: 0
Baron de MontesquieuMarriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners. Votes: 0
William CongreveThe seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leapt them over. Votes: 0
William ShakespearePersian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. Votes: 0
Moshe KatsavThe basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners. Votes: 0
Matt BomerThe talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker. Votes: 0
William Allen WhiteNew York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength. Votes: 0
Gertrude AthertonShould we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark? Votes: 0
James F. CooperIt is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. Votes: 0
Mark TwainThe Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones. Votes: 0
Solomon Ibn GabirolClothes and manners do not make the man but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherClothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. Votes: 0
Arthur Ashegood manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldClothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherThere is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude. Votes: 0
Theodore DalrympleAs soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element. Votes: 0
Thomas Chandler HaliburtonI journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners. Votes: 0
Tom RobbinsWhat all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GilbertWe were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids. Votes: 0
Oliver HudsonOne man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauWealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go. Votes: 0
Moazzam ShaikhOh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I donât know, but I bet theyâre having more fun than I am. Votes: 0
A. A. MilneGood manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. Votes: 5 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous scientists and musicians. And we've got to work on strengths. We also have to work on teaching basic manners and skills. Votes: 3 Temple Grandin
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. Votes: 4 Margaret Walker
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. Votes: 2 Emily Post
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not Votes: 4 Judith Martin
I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me. Votes: 4 Andy Garcia