Mark Twain Quotes About Manners

• Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Effort, Parent

• Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Thinking, Littles

  Notebook, 1899

• It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

  Mark Twain

  Mistake, People, Baths

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.19, Courier Corporation

• As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Feelings, Teeth

• Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Science, Scientist

  The Bee (published 1917)

• The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Thinking, Ignorant

• I was born modest, but it didn't last.

  Mark Twain

  Lasts, Moral, Manners

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

• The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Lying, Perfection

  "The Stolen White Elephant: Etc". Book by Mark Twain, p. 220-221, 1882.

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