Quotes on Manners

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Author: Stephen Bayley

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Author: Rita Brown

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

Author: John Burns

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Author: Colley Cibber

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Author: Ralph Emerson

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Author: Solomon Gabirol

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

Author: Katharine Gerould

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

Author: William Gilbert

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Author: Og Mandino

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Author: Horace Mann

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Author: Bryant McGill

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Author: Zebulon Pike

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Author: Philip Pullman

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Author: Alfred Sloan

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Author: Laurence Sterne

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Author: Paul Theroux

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Author: Evelyn Waugh

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Author: Richard Whately

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Author: Wendell Willkie