Good Manners Quotes - Page 5

• It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was simply good manners to let them know, from time to time, how valued they were.

  Jean Ferris

  Running, People, Kingdoms

  Jean Ferris (2016). “The Tales of Marigold Three Books in One!: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold”, p.436, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Years, Good Man, Moments

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• Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Spring, Good Man, Kind

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• When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

  Patti Page

  House, Good Man, Answers

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• Forget love. Try good manners.

  Rebecca Wells

  Good Man, Trying, Forget

  Rebecca Wells (2009). “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Novel, A”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Rudeness, Manners, Cold Comfort Farm

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Morning, Good Man, Important

  Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.26, Yearling

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• The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Should Have, Trying, Manners

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.273, Dial Press

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• The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, Fun, Intelligent

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• It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Sight, Hearing, Quitting

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• You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Sweet, Clever

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• Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners

  Ibn Rajab

  Good Man, Taqwa, Manners

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• Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

  Mason Cooley

  Good Man, Virtue, Manners

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• Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

  Mason Cooley

  Good Man, Vulnerable, Manners

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• Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Order, Discipline

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• Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, War, Writing

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• In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a man or woman, is not relevant at all. What is important is that citizens' confidence in politicians and the politics is strong enough to make politicians proud of their profession.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Strong, Men, Good Man

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

  Larry McMurtry

  Children, Sibling, Night

  Larry McMurtry (1999). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond”

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• Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Beautiful, Good Man, Sincerity

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

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• I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

  David Ogilvy

  Good Man, Use, Isms

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

  John Dewey

  Good Man, Information, Action

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Too many people think that "good manners" are about subjugating yourself to others. Not true. Respect, and just as important, self-respect are two key elements in this equation.

  Steven Petrow

  Thinking, Keys, Self

  "Civilities: Steven Petrow answers all your LGBT and straight social dilemmas for the hour". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

  John Irving

  Community, Good Man, Manners

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

  Charles Simmons

  Good Man, Littles, Energy

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• 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

  Children, Teaching, Creativity

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