Manners Quotes
207 quotes
"Oh Tigger, where are your manners?""I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am."
"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."
"A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart."
"I'm making a listI'm making a list of things I must sayFor politeness,And goodness and kindness and gentlenessSweetness and rightness:HelloPardon meHow are you?Excuse meBless youMay I?Thank youGoodbyeIf you know some that I've forgot,Please stick them in you eye!"
"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."
"A gentleman holds my hand.A man pulls my hair.A soulmate will do both."
"When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others."
"Be a person that others will look for your posts daily because they know you will encourage them. Be the positive one and help others to have a great day and you will find that not only they like you but you will like you too."
"Doing good makes you great. Bad things take away from good ones. Practicing Netiquette is all good. NetworkEtiquette.net"
"More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd."
"Top 15 Things Money Can’t BuyTime. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity."
"I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
"Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong."
"The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable."
"It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner."
"Wasting talent is a sin. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. It’s just not courteous to not use or wear something that somebody’s given you as a well-meaning gift. It goes against Southern ways, not that God is Southern by any stretch of the imagination, but I do think He expects us to be an example for the rest of the country, as far as manners go."
"I strive everyday to be a great parent so my kids can be better people when they move out into the world on their own."
"Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned."
"Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied."
"Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power."
"Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners."
"Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness."
"Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted."
"Tweet others the way you want to want to be tweeted."
"There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis."
"Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home."
"The actuality that the heart does not want to feel, doesn't negate the certitude that it once felt and will still feel."
"I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was ‘excuse me’."
"I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
"It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world."
"Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers."
"Manners come down to a single principle, talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting."
"The [women's] march was pointless, classless, and brainless, but not harmless. One common theme was anger at certain crass comments Trump made in the past. To combat this, the march’s leaders and their lemmings decided to be crude, lewd, and even more crass in the present. It’s much like trying to correct your child’s cursing by cursing him out."
"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners."
"Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale."
"Men can go to hell! I’ll meet them there."
"Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find."
"It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!"
"We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life."
"How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.'I'd send her a card alright. It would be the Ace of Spades, and I'd mail it anonymously from somewhere other than Bishop's Lacey."
"Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them."
"Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete."
"Gentlemen are a dying breed.Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually."
"Take care of your manners as seriously as your money."
"Roaring is never a voice for indoors. Roaring sounds better when done outdoors!"
"We need to take turns - it's the kind thing to do."
"We all need good manners, like our friends from the zoo!"
"That's when I remember if you have a choice, always ask friends to leave in a very nice voice."
"We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night."
Judith Martin, Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson
"Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows."
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