Quotes about Manners
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
- Martin Luther
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
- Oscar Wilde
Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land
- Genesis 23:12
Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”
- Genesis 24:33
Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
- Job 11:3
You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.
- Jeremiah 16:8
As Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee invited Him to dine with him; so He went in and reclined at the table.
- Luke 11:37
“When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited.
- Luke 14:8
Then the host who invited both of you will come and tell you, ‘Give this man your seat.’ And in humiliation, you will have to take the last place.
- Luke 14:9
But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone at the table with you.
- Luke 14:10
When they asked him to stay for a while longer, he declined.
- Acts 18:20