Manners Quotes - Page 7

• What once were vices are manners now.

  Seneca the Younger

  Vices

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• There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Stupid, Ruins, Merit

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• There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Yield, Law, Energy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.85, 谷月社

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• Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ambitious, Youth, Courtesy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.406

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• Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Independence, Unions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Modern Library

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• Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Wind, Weather

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Eggs, Way

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

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• The greater person is one of courtesy.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Courtesy, Persons, Greater

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  In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

  Joe Strummer

  Mean, Rocks, Facts

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. September 1999.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

  Friedrich Schiller

  Cutting, Men, Circles

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go by. It seems to me like that is a new piece of bad manners. Probably. Generally I assume that anything that happens now happened to Adam and Eve also.

  Lore Segal

  Assuming, Adam And Eve, Bad Manners

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two Nations, Law, People

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.283

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• Good manners are never passé.

  Slim Aarons

  Good Man, Good Manners

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• Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Song, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1090, Library of America

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• Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

  Andre Maurois

  Civilization, Two, Culture

  ANDRE MAUROIS (1939). “ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY”

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• Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Husband, Wife, Important

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

  June Jordan

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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