Manners Quotes

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Samuel Johnson

A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

George W. Crane

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

John Henry Newman

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Jonathan Swift

Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.

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The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.

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Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Wilson Mizner

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden Econ

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Hector Hugh Munro

Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.

Oscar Wilde

Here numerous persons, with big wigs many of them, and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science, start up in an agitated vehement manner: but the Premier resolutely beckons them down again

Thomas Carlyle

Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure;...

Friedrich Nietzsche

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Alexander Pope

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nevell Bovee

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

While there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we do not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, however; for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

Henry David Thoreau

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

Orson Scott Card