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Manners Quotes

I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

Life People City Fast Manners Moral

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

Bryant H. McGill

Good Bad Manners Good Manners Much

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.

You Manners Numbers Without Things

Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.

Toks Olagundoye

Girl Bad Bad Boy Manners Kind Boy

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

Great Rules Feelings Manners Others

I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.

Letitia Baldrige

Bad Manners Bad Manners Knock Ever

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.

Good Winning Intention Manners Go

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Women Man Morals Bad Manners Him

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

Humble Manners Dignity Encourage

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Alexander McCall Smith

Building Society Manners Basic Civil

I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.

Father Home Men Remember Manners

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life Life Is Hard Easy Manners Hard

There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.

Sabine Baring-Gould

Life Experience Wife Manners More

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

Manners Up Normal Chores Kids Our

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Good People Bad Manners Sometimes

I don't accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.

Grandchildren Bad Manners Accept

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Good Feel Manners Emotions True

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

Life Good Society Back Manners Up

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

Good Manners Lying Good Manners Half

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

Good Attitude Dress Manners Matter

I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

Life People City Fast Manners Up

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Man Clothes Appearance Manners Made

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Laughter Manners Folly Loud Ill

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

Richard V. Allen

Society Born Manners Soil Never

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