Manners Quotes - Page 8

• She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
  She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
  Were man as rare as Phoenix.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Phoenix, Proud

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.2682, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Jobs, Mean, Beer

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• There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Simple, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.

  Samuel Adams

  Perseverance, Men, Voting

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• The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a love of order, and to impress them with respect for. lawful authority. Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man towards God.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Education, Men, Order

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• EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

  Noah Webster

  Education, Religious, Art

  "A Dictionary of the English Language".

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• You have no sensitivity that your soul shall leave in the subtle body and that your subtle body is as sophisticated as anything in the universe can be. So unless you produce in yourself elegance, grace, sophisticatedness in your mind, manners and attitude, and unless you come from the infinite altitude, and ascend to that altitude, you cannot descend in love. The higher is your being, the deeper is the love.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Attitude

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• More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Knighthood, And Love

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.62, Random House

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• There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Education, Character, Men

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• In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular: In proportion as the manners, customs, and amusements of a nation are cruel and barbarous, the regulations of its penal code will be severe. In proportion as men delight in battles, bullfights, and combats of gladiators, will they punish by hanging, burning, and the rack.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Philosophy, Men, Two

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• The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

  Pliny the Elder

  Business, Men, Mind

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• The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918; before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself.

  Russell Kirk

  Communication, Character, Men

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• We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gentleman, Sometimes, Existence

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• Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

  Coco Chanel

  Men, Good Man, Style

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• The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liars, Giving, Delight

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.305, University of Chicago Press

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• Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

  Freya Stark

  Zero, May, Arithmetic

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• As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

  Federico Fellini

  Voice, Good Man, Silhouettes

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• Dressing well is an expression of manners.

  Tom Ford

  Expression, Dressing Well, Wells

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• To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

  Emily Post

  Good Man, Friendly, Good Business

  "Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home".

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• Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.

  Habib Ali al-Jifri

  Judging, Intention, Poor

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• I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There is decline in morals, ideals, manners, respect, truthfulness: just about everything, in fact.

  Christopher Lee

  Thinking, Medicine, Age

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with Normal Life are bullshit artists of the highest degree, looking to excuse their antisocial tendencies and bad manners away with a flourish of vocabulary and the semantic waving of hands.

  Matt Fraction

  Artist, Vocabulary, Hands

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• Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

  Winston Churchill

  Discovery, Justice, Honor

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Literature, Individual

  'Joseph Andrews' (1742) bk. 3, ch. 1

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• Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

  Fanny Jackson Coppin

  People, Good Man, Good Manners

  Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl

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