Manners Quotes

The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.

Alfred Adler

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Joseph Joubert

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

B. F. Skinner

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Voltaire

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

Jane Austen

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Jane Austen

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

Aristotle

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

William Shakespeare

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Henry David Thoreau

If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.

Henry David Thoreau

Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.

Proverb

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Sir Walter Raleigh

With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.

Ransom K. Ferm

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Thomas Carlyle

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

George Bernard Shaw

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

Evelyn Waugh

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

David Hume

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

John Wanamaker

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Walter Benjamin