Quotes About Manners From Million Quotes
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. - Emily Post
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. - Arthur Schopenhauer
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. - Barry M. Goldwater and Jack Casserly, Goldwater
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. - Bill Kelly
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. - Abel Stevens
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. - Author Unknown
The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones. - Gabirol (Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol), The Choice of Pearls
Learn young about hard work and manners — and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. - Maurice Baring
Stop being snarky.... Now you're being sarcastic. You're being snarky and sarcastic and I don't think any of us want to hear any more of your snarkasm. - Tim Hobert, The Middle, "The Christmas Tree" (season 5, episode 9), original airdate 2013 December 11th, Frankie Heck to son Axl
I don't think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards. - W. Somerset Maugham
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. - Bennett Cerf
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. - Lord Halifax
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. - E.V. Lucas
Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home. - J.S. Farynski
Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein, The Little Stuff Matters Most
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. - French Proverb
When you want to get your way, simply try being mannerly. It's become so rare nowadays that it disarms people. It throws them off balance. Don't think of it as merely being nice; rather, consider it "civil" war. - Joe Kita, "What I Know" (How to Get What You Want), Wisdom of Our Fathers, 1999
Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it." - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
In those old days, the Nymph called Etiquette
(Appalling thought to dwell on) was not born....
Just as they pleased they dressed and drank and ate...
And danced unchaperoned, and laughed unchecked,
And were no doubt extremely incorrect.
- Charles Stuart Calverley, "Beer," Verses and Translations, 1862
Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident. - P.J. O'Rourke
Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. - John Wanamaker
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. - Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living: Diaries
Treat people as you would like to be treated. Karma's only a bitch if you are. - Author Unknown
It's not a slam at you when people are rude — it's a slam at the people they've met before. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you — not because they are nice, but because you are. - Author Unknown
Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse? - John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, 1960
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. - Author Unknown
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
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