Manners Quotes

I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

Beware of a man with manners.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

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

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

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

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

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!!

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

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.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.