Manners Quotes
Josh Stern
Manners without sincerity, is called polite society
1698Alessandra Torre
A gentleman holds my hand.
A man pulls my hair.
A soulmate will do both.
2479Tim Burton
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
2573Michael Bassey Johnson
Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.
4416Kathy Griffin
I was raised right - I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.
3987Shel Silverstein
I'm making a list
I'm making a list of things I must say
For politeness,
And goodness and kindness and gentleness
Sweetness and rightness:
Hello
Pardon me
How are you?
Excuse me
Bless you
May I?
Thank you
Goodbye
If you know some that I've forgot,
Please stick them in you eye!
4490Fannie Flagg
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
1937Charlaine Harris
Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.
3838Bauvard
I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was ‘excuse me’.
4868Cindy Ann Peterson
Let us work towards not only bringing civility back in style, but ultimately making it a lifestyle.
3119Cindy Ann Peterson
We are more advanced technologically than ever before. However, technology, in many respects, is leading to the decline of conversation.
4311Thomas More
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
1312Lorraine Loria
Roaring is never a voice for indoors. Roaring sounds better when done outdoors!
2436Lorraine Loria
We all need good manners, like our friends from the zoo!
3353Lorraine Loria
That's when I remember if you have a choice, always ask friends to leave in a very nice voice.
3446Carew Papritz
POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS.
3231Lydia Ramsey
It’s not about the rules - it’s about the relationships.
3132Meredith Duran
Manners come down to a single principle, talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting.
1475Ann Barrett Batson
Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies.
The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable respect.
3973Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
3663Tony Campolo
I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.
4831Mark Boxer
It's the height of bad manners to sleep with somebody less than three times.
3690Alessandra Torre
Gentlemen are a dying breed.
Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.
2480Cindy Ann Peterson
The art of civil conversation begins at birth. Then goes from the dinner table to the schoolroom, to interaction among friends, to the work place, and on to other places where all manner of social interactions are required.
1912Amit Kalantri
Take care of your manners as seriously as your money.
2352William Shakespeare
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.
1523Rose Wynters
Once he got there, he stopped and looked back. “You know, the thing about manners is that we only seem to notice the lack of them in others. It's a lot harder to see mistakes in ourselves.
1237Enock Maregesi
Nimewapa watoto wangu kila kitu katika maisha isipokuwa umaskini. Lakini bado wamenishinda.
4479Enock Maregesi
Wape watoto wako urithi wa kutosha ili waweze kufanya kitu, lakini si urithi wa kutosha ili wasiweze kufanya kitu. Wape watoto uhuru wanaostahili kupata, uhuru wa mahesabu, lakini si uhuru wa kila kitu.
2623Enock Maregesi
Ukiwapa watoto wako uhuru wa shaghalabaghala au uhuru wa kila kitu watajisahau! Wape uhuru wa mahesabu.
3837Mustafa SULTAN
More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.
3469J.D. Salinger
I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
2417Alison Croggon
It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.
3672Judith Martin
We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.
4450Jean-Paul Sartre
It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!
1760Maralee McKee
Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.
4448Vera Nazarian
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.
Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.
Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.
4737Cindy Ann Peterson
Civility awareness and a common foundation of considerate conduct are crutial to our future,
3543David Chiles
Teamwork is good netiquette. All good users can work together to accomplish goals. NetworkEtiquette.net
4337Robert A. Heinlein
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
1817Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.
3332Judith Martin
The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.
3379Mohammad PBUH
Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.
3822Tiffany Madison
As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't.
3693A.A. Milne
Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"
"I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.
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