Quotes about Manners
a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
- Charles Dickens
Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.
- Gordon Hinckley
The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
- Henry David Thoreau
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
- Zig Ziglar
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
- Billy Graham
Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.
- William Hazlitt
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.
- Hilaire Belloc
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
- Mark Twain
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
- Mark Twain
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson