Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Bad manners make a journalist.
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
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.
You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
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