Manners Quotes

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Horace Mann

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

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

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Benjamin Disraeli

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

June Jordan

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

Alexander Maclaren

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Doug Horton

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Honore de Balzac

Still people are dangerous.

Jean de La Fontaine

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

Noam Chomsky

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

James Russell Lowell

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

Proverb

Contraries are cured by contraries.

Proverb

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

Proverb

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw

Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.

Edwin H. Land

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

Thomas Carlyle

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Manners are stronger than laws

Thomas Carlyle