Manners Quotes

• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

  Margaret Walker

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.496, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

  Laurence Sterne

  Respect, Self Esteem, Ethics

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

  Clarence Thomas

  Inspirational, Education, Integrity

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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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• 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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• Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Serenity, Zenith

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• What once were vices are manners now.

  Seneca the Younger

  Vices

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• Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Graduation, Kindness, Children

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• What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

  Robert Breault

  People, Trying

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• Good manners are a sign of strength.

  Dick Francis

  Good Man, Good Manners

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• The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

  Wendell Willkie

  Tests, Able, Good Manners

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Good Man, Elements, Good Manners

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

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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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• Manners are the ornament of action.

  Samuel Smiles

  Ornaments, Action

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.323

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• Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Support, Needs, Fine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• The greater person is one of courtesy.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Courtesy, Persons, Greater

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• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Perfect, Behaviour, Indifference

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• Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

  Maurice Baring

  Rude, Ifs, Good Manners

  Maurice Baring (2014). “The Coat Without Seam”, p.58, House of Stratus

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• Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Work, Dirty, Young

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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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, Polite

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

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• Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

  Will Cuppy

  Mean, Essentials, Littles

  Will Cuppy (1929). “How to be a Hermit: Or, A Bachelor Keeps House”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Soul, Good Man

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• Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Diagnosis, Substitutes, Bedside Manner

  "The Almanac of Quotable Quotes from 1990". Book by Ronald D. Pasquariello, p. 103, 1991.

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• Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Way, Usage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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