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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• Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.

  George Herbert

  Stars, Parent, Example

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.367

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• A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.

  Hakim

  Beautiful, Children, Islamic

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• History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

  James Anthony Froude

  Fall, Law, Voice

  James Anthony Froude (1867). “Short studies on Greate Subjects”, p.25

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• I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

  David Ogilvy

  Good Man, Use, Isms

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.

  Suzy Parker

  Boys, America, Goes On

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

  Clarence Thomas

  Inspirational, Education, Integrity

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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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• The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Patience, Tests, Table Manners

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• A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Birthday, Justice, Age

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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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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• 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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• Good manners require space and time.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Space, Good Man, Good Manners

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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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• He who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

  James Russell Lowell

  Knives, Mind, Democracy

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Letters, ed. by C. E. Norton”

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• Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, People, Literature

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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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• Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

  Horace Mann

  Moral, Mature, Good 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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• You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Witty, Rude

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.38, Bantam

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• In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Humor, Want

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.407, Penguin

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