Quotes about Manners
Girl3 "You don't have to be a jerk" SlingBlade "Quite the contrary, my sloppy penile scholar.Order me another drink and be quick about it.
- Tucker Max
Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.
- Gordon Hinckley
when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . .
- Peter Kreeft
Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
- Confucius
It feels like people will poke a spear in anyplace they can draw blood these days. It wasn't that way when I was growing up. Even in politics, people had some…" I search for the word, and the best thing I can come up with is "decency.
- Lisa Wingate
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
- Laurence Sterne
Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
- Ernest Hemingway
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
- Jacques Maritain
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.
- Ellen White
If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.
- Aesop
How can a man know he is one when his highest aim is minding his manners?
- John Eldredge
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
- Lewis Carroll