Manners Quotes
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.Evelyn Waugh
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
Associate with well - Mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.Stanley Walke
Manners maketh man.William of Wykeham, Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.William Shakespeare
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
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.John Milton
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.James A. Forude
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.John Owen
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners.Lawrence Sterne
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
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.Edmund Burke
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.Charles Simmons
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.Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.Clarence Thomas
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.Lawrence Sterne
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.Lord Acton
Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.Prophet Muhammad, Muslim
What once were vices are manners now.Seneca
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.Mary Wilson Little
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
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.Fred Astaire
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.Martin Luthe
Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... Higher emotions, and table manners.Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation
