Quotes
Quotes about Manners
There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. [Lat., Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.]
Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.
Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
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.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
