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Manners Quotes

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

Richard Whately

Man Influence Manners Greatest Given

You lose your manners when you are poor.

Lillian Hellman

You Lose Manners Poor Your

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

Letitia Baldrige

Learning Behavior Manners Watching

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

Parents Dinner You Party Manners Up

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!

War Think You Bad Manners Possible

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Learning Child World Learn Manners

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.

Good Woman Door Security Manners

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

Good People You Manners Kind Matter

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Good Eating Soup You Manners Noise

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Support Manners Others Need Fine

Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.

Good Karma You Manners Go Events

My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.

Fortune Feimster

I Am People Heritage Manners Real

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Good Learn You Manners Good Manners

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

Style Comedy Manners Something

I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought.

Men I Am Thought Political Manners

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

Good Manners Lying Good Manners Half

I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.

Rules Manners Principles Cultures

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.

You Manners Want Mean Right Seems

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

Anthony Trollope

Heart Manners True Always High May

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

Love Respect Manners Shadows Virtues

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

Believe Manners Dignity Authority

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Letitia Baldrige

Good Manners Good Manners Rude Top

I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.

Good Women Doors Manners Open Doors

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Honore de Balzac

Hypocrisy Manners Nation

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