Courtesy Manners Quotes

• 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 short but there is always time for courtesy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Kindness, Compassion

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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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• 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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• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

  Madame de Stael

  Art, Courtesy, Manners

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• He who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

  Jacques Maritain

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

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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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• 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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• The greater man the greater courtesy.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Courtesy, Manners

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Last Tournament' (1859) l. 628

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• Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

  John Wanamaker

  Snow, Courtesy, Shovels

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• The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Literature, Courtesy

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• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Best Friend, Intimate Relationships

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.94

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Courtesy

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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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