Well Mannered Quotes

• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.

  Erwin Rommel

  Military, Men, Voice

  "Quotations for Martial Artists: Hundreds of Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Enlighten the Modern Warrior". Book by John Moore, p. 46, 2003.

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• I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

  Michael C. Hall

  Thinking, Southern, Grit

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• I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Black And White, Men

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• The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

  Denis Diderot

  People, Lovers, Sexuality

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• I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.

  Leontyne Price

  Party, Guests, Wells

  "Kanye, Miley and the death of the diva" by LZ Granderson,, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2013.

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• If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  Character, Views, Divergent

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (2014). “Spirit of Islam”, p.7, Goodword Books

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• I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

  Michael Caine

  Heartbroken, Home, Thinking

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• [Nikola Tesla and Leon Theremin] were European gentlemen, very well-mannered, all of the stuff you associate with living in Europe.

  Paul Laffoley

  Europe, Gentleman, Tesla

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

  Stephen Sondheim

  Clever, Thrones, Passionate

  Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine (1988). “Into the Woods”, Crown

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• The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

  Arundhati Roy

  Jobs, Real, Salary

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.335, Haymarket Books

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• I love that there are beaches you can walk your dog on in San Francisco. Fort Funston is big and always packed with hundreds of dogs and their people. A great place to hike and get some exercise and fresh air with your well-mannered pup. Not recommended for antisocial dogs; there's just too much commotion there.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Dog, Beach, Exercise

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• A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Long Walks, Creative

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• First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

  Julianna Baggott

  Love, Average, Hands

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• Because it's unacceptable that the aid worker's chauffeur only speaks his own tribal language, an applicant is needed who also speaks English fluently - and, ideally, one who is also well mannered. So you end up with some African biochemist driving an aid worker around, distributing European food, and forcing local farmers out of their jobs. That's just crazy!

  James Shikwati

  Jobs, Crazy, Speak English

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Parent, Wells

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• I wouldn't call it ["Wild Bill Hickok"] an urban legend, but I guess I'd call it a rural legend that the cowboy was always soft-spoken, mild-spoken, well-mannered.

  Keith Carradine

  Cowboy, Urban Legends, Bills

  "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Was [Adolf Hitler] rude to me? Never. He was always polite and well-mannered.

  Gretl Braun

  Rude, Polite, Wells

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• I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

  Jack Nicholson

  Silly, Simple, Doors

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Homosexuals love to look good. They're clean, neat. They're fastidious, well mannered and well educated. They like aesthetic things. They like good, firm, tight bodies. Health. They want to attract other guys. What's wrong with that? Why be slobs? You've got to be insane to suggest that because someone looks good, he must be gay. That's envy.

  Jack LaLanne

  Gay, Envy, Guy

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• People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.

  Donatella Versace

  Children, People, Earth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The well-mannered man never puts out his hand in greeting until a lady extends hers. This is a test of good breeding that is constantly applied. ... The first move in the direction of cordiality must come from the lady, the whole code of behaviour being based on the assumption that she is the social superior.

  Humphry Davy

  Moving, Men, Hands

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• If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.

  Bill Nighy

  Character, Ideas, Agendas

  "Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2009.

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• For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

  Isak Dinesen

  Suicide, Dream, People

  Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (1987). “On Modern Marriage and Other Observations”

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• No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Funny, Dog, Training

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