Quotes about Manners
Politeness and courtesy are a small price to pay for the goodwill of others.
- John Wooden
when you start displaying courtesy, politeness, and consideration, people start displaying them right back.
- John Wooden
Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.
- Marcus Aurelius
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
- GK Chesterton
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
- George Washington
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
- Samuel Johnson
If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
- Proverbs 27:14
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.
- Mark Twain
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
- Victor Hugo