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Manners Quotes

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Life Good You Bad Manners Through

Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.

Letitia Baldrige

I Am Talking Manners Used Because

If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.

Live World Better Look Manners Want

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good Morals Manners Mean Always Own

It's not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It's an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a part of good manners.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Good Dress Manners Insult Your Part

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Man Child Simplicity Manners Gentle

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

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Alien Manners Kind Test Literacy Us

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Benjamin Franklin

Manners Call Because Them Ours

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time Manners Nothing More Haste

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

Gentleman Someone Manners Want

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Flannery O'Connor

Great Losing Better Bad Manners

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Manners Place Individual Interested

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Heart Manners Person Want Kind Real

The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.

Heart Men Sacrifice Joy Manners

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Good Police Someone Manners Will

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

You Manners More Need Controversy

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

Good Manners Compass Beyond Wit

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

Apollonius of Tyana

Good Time End Manners Good Manners

I will not ever say that it's good to start with too little preparation, because that's patently not true. But I don't rehearse the way a lot of directors do, to stage a scene in terms of manners and attitudes and lock them in.

Good Preparation Start Manners True

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