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• The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Should Have, Trying, Manners

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.273, Dial Press

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• The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, Fun, Intelligent

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• It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Sight, Hearing, Quitting

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• You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Sweet, Clever

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• Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

  Christopher Morley

  Teacher, Good Man, Unhappy

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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• I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

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• When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

  Patti Page

  House, Good Man, Answers

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• Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.

  Florence King

  Friendship, Relationship, Wall

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• Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good manners. All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society.

  David Hume

  Law, Justice, Good Man

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.984, David Hume

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• Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Good Man, Aristocracy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• Dressing well is a form of good manners.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Dressing Up, Monday Morning

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• It has always been like that with changes. In 1913, we established divorce as a right for women in Uruguay. You know what they were saying back then? That families would dissolve. That it was the end of good manners and society. There has always been a conservative and traditional opinion out there that's afraid of change. When I was young and would go dancing at balls, we'd have to wear suits and ties. Otherwise they wouldn't let us in. I don't think anyone dresses up for dancing parties nowadays.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Party, Humble

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• The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

  Hugh Massingberd

  Love, Life, Family

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• Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners

  Ibn Rajab

  Good Man, Taqwa, Manners

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• Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

  Mason Cooley

  Good Man, Virtue, Manners

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• Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

  Mason Cooley

  Good Man, Vulnerable, Manners

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• Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Truth, Humble, Good Man

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.262, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Teach a child good manners during babyhood.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Children, Good Man, Manners

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• Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

  Gurney Williams

  Children, Teaching, Creativity

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• Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Years, Good Man, Moments

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• Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Beautiful, Good Man, Sincerity

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

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• Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Order, Discipline

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• Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

  Charles Simmons

  Good Man, Littles, Energy

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• I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Girl, Intelligent, Arrogance

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• Forget love. Try good manners.

  Rebecca Wells

  Good Man, Trying, Forget

  Rebecca Wells (2009). “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Novel, A”, p.26, Harper Collins

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