Manners Quotes - Page 7

• What once were vices are manners now.

  Seneca the Younger

  Vices

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• Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Independence, Unions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Modern Library

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• Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

  Ovid

  Art, Teaching, Men

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• We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

  Rumi

  Respect, Way, Helping

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.122, Shambhala Publications

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• There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Eggs, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image.
  [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mirrors, Behavior, Shows

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• There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Stupid, Ruins, Merit

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• The greater person is one of courtesy.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Courtesy, Persons, Greater

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  In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

  Joe Strummer

  Mean, Rocks, Facts

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. September 1999.

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• Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

  Maurice Baring

  Rude, Ifs, Good Manners

  Maurice Baring (2014). “The Coat Without Seam”, p.58, House of Stratus

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• 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

  Work, Dirty, Young

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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• Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Good Man, Emotion, Polite

  Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

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• The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Soul, Good Man

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• Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Way, Usage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Graduation, Kindness, Children

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• Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

  Will Cuppy

  Mean, Essentials, Littles

  Will Cuppy (1929). “How to be a Hermit: Or, A Bachelor Keeps House”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Diagnosis, Substitutes, Bedside Manner

  "The Almanac of Quotable Quotes from 1990". Book by Ronald D. Pasquariello, p. 103, 1991.

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• The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Aggravation, Cynical, Shame

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• As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Attention, Taught

  "How to be Lovely‎" by Melissa Hellstern, (p. 8), 2005.

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• Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Influence, Given

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• Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.

  George Lucas

  Hero, Caring, Self

  "Of Myth And Men". Interview with Bill Moyers, content.time.com. April 18, 1999.

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• Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

  William Arthur Ward

  Self Esteem, Character, Mirrors

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• Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

  Emily Post

  Doe, Made, Triviality

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

  Emily Post

  Color, Certain, Situation

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• Teach that asshole some manners.

  Jamie McGuire

  Teach

  Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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