Quotes about Manners
You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.
- Toni Morrison
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
- George Washington
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
- Maria Edgeworth
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
- Oscar Wilde
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
- George Bernard Shaw
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
- Charles Dickens
Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.
- Tana French
Manners is treating people with respect.
- Tana French
The greater man the greater courtesy.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson