Jonathan Swift Quotes About Manners

Quotes about: Manners

• The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ruins, Manners, States

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.244

• Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, People, Literature

• Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Two, Example, Flattery

• Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Three, Want

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.621

• Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

  Jonathan Swift

  Flattery, Manners, Ill

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.625

• Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Men, Knowing

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.621

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