Good Manners Quotes

• Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

  Clarence Thomas

  Inspirational, Education, Integrity

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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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• Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

  Emily Post

  Self, Consideration, Manners

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• Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

  Bill Kelly

  People, Good Man, Way

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• Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Thinking, Littles

  Notebook, 1899

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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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• 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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• Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

  Horace Mann

  Moral, Mature, Manners

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.80

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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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• 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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• 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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• Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

  Roger Moore

  Education, Children, Home

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• The society of women is the element of good manners.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Good Man, Elements, Manners

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

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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 car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  New York, Humorous, Car

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.107, BookBaby

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• Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Cost, Behaviour, Civility

  Letter to her daughter Mary, Countess of Bute, 30 May 1756, in Robert Halsband (ed.) 'The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' vol. 3 (1967) p. 107

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• I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

  Og Mandino

  Grace, Sugar, Manners

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.53, Bantam

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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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• 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: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

  Bennett Cerf

  Food, Cooking, Soup

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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 can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Years, Good Man

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

  Madame de Stael

  Art, Courtesy, Manners

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• Where there are no women there are no good manners

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Good Man, Manners

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