Manners Quotes - Page 8

• When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

  Kin Hubbard

  Moral, Opinion, Conformity

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• I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

  Freya Stark

  Believe, Hands, Voice

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

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• Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

  David Riesman

  Mean, People, Etiquette

  David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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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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• When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Want, Should

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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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• Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

  William Warburton

  Regulation, Ancient, Isolated

  William Warburton, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author”, p.62

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• Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Giving, Parent, Doe

  "Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Good Man, Done

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Politeness, Benevolence

  Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.8598, Delphi Classics

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• Of two evils choose the prettier.

  Carolyn Wells

  Two, Evil, Decision

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• Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

  Raymond Chandler

  Integrity, Men, Hollywood

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.120, Univ of California Press

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• People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.

  Judith Martin

  People, Plastic, Doilies

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

  George Santayana

  Home, Men, Mind

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.

  Oswald Chambers

  Son, Good Man, Problem

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• Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

  Virginia Cary Hudson

  Thinking, People, Listening

  Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”

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• I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.

  Garrison Keillor

  Mother, Cheer, Sorry

  Garrison Keillor (1998). “Wobegon Boy”, p.9, Penguin

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• In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

  Penelope Keith

  Book, Thinking

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• You lose your manners when you're poor.

  Lillian Hellman

  Poverty, Poor, Loses

  Lillian Hellman (1979). “Six Plays”, Vintage

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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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• Money doesn't mean that you are educated, have manners, class or even have good hygiene. All it means is . . . you have money!

  Tina Louise

  Mean, Class, Hygiene

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• Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

  Jonathan Raban

  Blue, Cities, British

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Interesting, Towns, Appearance

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.19

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• One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Men, Reputation

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.145, Princeton University Press

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• Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Passion, Moments, Natural

  Maria Edgeworth (1811). “Almeria; a Tale of fashionable life”, p.29

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