Good Manners Quotes - Page 6

• Too many people think that "good manners" are about subjugating yourself to others. Not true. Respect, and just as important, self-respect are two key elements in this equation.

  Steven Petrow

  Thinking, Keys, Self

  "Civilities: Steven Petrow answers all your LGBT and straight social dilemmas for the hour". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2016.

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• Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

  Mason Cooley

  Good Man, Virtue, Manners

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• I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

  John Irving

  Community, Good Man, Manners

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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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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• Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Morning, Good Man, Important

  Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.26, Yearling

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

  Julia McNair Wright

  Years, Good Man, Moments

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• Good manners are a part of good morals.

  Richard Whately

  Good Man, Moral, Manners

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.244

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• Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Spring, Good Man, Kind

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• The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

  Laura Esquivel

  Personality, Gathering, Doe

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• Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Liars, Men, Vanity

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to her, Jon cast about for some sort of polite conversation pertinent to the occasion. “I hate funerals, don’t you?” He said. “I rather like them,” she said smugly. “At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

  Judith McNaught

  Hate, Elderly, Funeral

  Judith McNaught (2003). “Paradise”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

  Michelle Sagara

  Hate, Thinking, Gathering

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril”, p.1080, MIRA

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• Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

  Lynne Truss

  Drawing, Roots, Attention

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, www.today.com. November 6, 2003.

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• All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

  E. O. Wilson

  Mean, Self, Practice

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• Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

  Peter Mayle

  Positive, Men, Good Man

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• Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Air, Space, Long

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• Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

  William Howard Taft

  Golf, Men, Self

  Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

  Russell Brand

  Police, Good Man, England

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

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• My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners.

  Matt Bomer

  Doors, People, Parent

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• We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

  Hannibal

  Disappointment, Good Man, Manners

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• Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Sexy, Men, Good Man

  "Ask A Supermodel: Valentine's Tips For Men". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. February 12, 2012.

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• Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering effective self-expression and communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness, mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community and concern for the health of our society is also involved in civility.

  P. M. Forni

  Respect, Nice, Communication

  "Einstein Was a Mensch" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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• Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair's effect, or a sculpture's. You're part of someone's view, you're part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it's a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can.

  Tom Ford

  Views, Good Man, Trying

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• Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting, you should be a Muslim the like of this. Let good deeds be your Kaaba and truth be your mentor. Your Kalma be your creed and prayer, God would then vindicate your honour.

  Guru Nanak

  Letting Go, Prayer, Compassion

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