Bad Manners Quotes

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

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Mean, People

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• Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Doors, Good Man, Manners

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• There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Envy, Manners, Persons

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• There is no nobility with bad manners.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Manners, Nobility

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• The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

  Aristophanes

  Love, Respect, Teacher

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• A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Loss, Dying, Culture

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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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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• Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Literature, Appreciated, Rudeness

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• The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

  Wendell Willkie

  Tests, Able, Manners

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• There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

  Steven Brust

  No Excuses, Manners, Reflexes

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• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

  Margaret Walker

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.496, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Birthday, Justice, Age

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Heaven, Soul

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2523, e-artnow

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• Bad manners make a journalist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Manners, Journalist

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Henry James

  Men, Moral, Manners

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• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  Walt Whitman

  Real, Artist, Humanity

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.516, NYU Press

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• Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

  Benjamin Banneker

  Communication, Science, Evil

  Friends' Intelligencer, Volume XI (p. 821), 1854.

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• Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

  Miller Williams

  War, Eye, Compassion

  Miller Williams (1997). “The Ways We Touch: Poems”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

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

  Lillian Gish

  Life, Good Man, Manners

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• 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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Two, Example, Flattery

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• It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

  David Ogilvy

  Eye, Men, Magazines

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

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• 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.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Novelists, Literature, Losing

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.29, Macmillan

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• This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

  Bryan Cranston

  Country, Ignorance, Self

  "Bryan Cranston: from Malcolm In The Middle to America's favourite meth dealer" by Lexi Turner, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2009.

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• That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Disrespect, Good Man, World

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think it contributes to this rise in bad manners and mean comments; people are being driven by seeking something that's just designed to keep them seeking something. I'm not reducing people in this age to phone-addicted dum-dums, but we have to remind ourselves to also study compassion and inner life as well.

  Lauren Graham

  Mean, Thinking, Compassion

  Source: www.glamour.com

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