Courtesy Manners Quotes

• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

  Madame de Stael

  Art, Courtesy, Manners

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• 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.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Behaviour

  Reader's Digest, Volume 68, 1956.

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• A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Men, Mirrors

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 39, 1998.

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• Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

  Henry Clay

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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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, Manners

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

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• He who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspirational, Jobs, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Time, Kindness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.46, Harvard University Press

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• Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

  Jacques Maritain

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

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• Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Kindness, Compassion

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• He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Effort, Parent

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  Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Best Friend, Confidence

  George Washington (1852). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.94

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• Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

  Edmund Burke

  Air, Law, Uniforms

  "Three Letters to a Member of Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France" (1796 - 1797)

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• No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Rudeness, Courtesy, Insufferable

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• A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Men, People

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• The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Patience, Tests, Table Manners

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• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Sensitive

  "Reader's Digest" Magazine, Vol. 68, 1956.

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• We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Morality, Justified

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• A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Courtesy

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• Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Good Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2581, Delphi Classics

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Society, May

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  House, Intelligence, Golden

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.114

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• Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  E. V. Lucas

  Courtesy, Manners, Defence

  1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.8.

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