Famous Quotes About Manners By Reference

(53 Items) A great collection of quotes about Manners. Quotations are arranged alphabetically and can be sorted by any header. This list of Manners sayings and quotes includes the sources and authors of the Manners quotes when possible. We hope you find this list of quotations about the topic Manners useful as a reference list or informative as you surf the web, and you can find many other lists of quotes about subjects on Ranker. You can use this factual list to create a new list, re-rank it to fit your opinion, then share it on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networks you belong to.

Print Blog View Views: 1807 Items: 53

< >

Show: 25 100

Order Name Author Subjects

1

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Earl of Chesterfield

Manners
2

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Cicero

Manners
3

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

Oliver Goldsmith

Manners
4

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

David Hume

Manners
5

Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.

Manners
6

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Walter Raleigh

Manners
7

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Oliver Goldsmith

Manners
8

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

Earl of Chesterfield

Manners
9

Civility costs nothing.

Manners
10

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.

Confucius

Manners
11

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners
12

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Manners
13

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

James Russell Lowell

Manners
14

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

Alexander Maclaren

Manners
15

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson

Manners
16

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Wyndham Lewis

Manners
17

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

William Shakespeare

Manners
18

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

Evelyn Waugh

Manners
19

Manners are happy ways of doing things.

Manners
20

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Sydney Smith

Manners
21

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Quentin Crisp

Manners
22

Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

Manners
23

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

Edmund Burke

Manners
24

Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love --now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners
25

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Honoré de Balzac

Manners
26

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Horace Mann

Manners
27

Manners make the person.

Manners
28

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.

Earl of Chesterfield

Manners
29

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners
30

Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.

Manners
31

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.

Jonathan Swift

Manners
32

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Manners
33

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Buckminster Fuller

Manners
34

Politeness is benevolence in small things.

Manners
35

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Joseph Joubert

Manners
36

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

Jean de La Bruyère

Manners
37

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Earl of Chesterfield

Manners
38

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer

Manners
39

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Benjamin Franklin

Manners
40

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Benjamin Franklin

Manners
41

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners
42

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 third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw

Manners
43

The greater person is one of courtesy.

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

Manners
44

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Mark Twain

Manners
45

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

June Jordan

Manners
46

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners
47

To be a successful hostess, when guest arrive say, At last! and when they leave say, So soon!

Manners
48

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.

Richard Whately

Manners
49

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Walt Whitman

Manners
50

Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.

Manners
51

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

G. K. Chesterton

Manners
52

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Voltaire

Manners
53

What once were vices are manners now.

Seneca the Younger

Manners

Showing items 1 - 25 of 53

Famous Quotes About Manners you can use this list to help make your own ranked list about this topic

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

Civility costs nothing.

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

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

Manners are happy ways of doing things.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Manners make the person.

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.

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.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Politeness is benevolence in small things.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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 third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

The greater person is one of courtesy.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

To be a successful hostess, when guest arrive say, At last! and when they leave say, So soon!

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.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

What once were vices are manners now.