Good Manners Quotes - Page 2

• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Sensitive

  "Reader's Digest" Magazine, Vol. 68, 1956.

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• Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Good Man, Return, Manners

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.121

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• Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Positive, Philosophical, Entrepreneur

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Humor, Want

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.407, Penguin

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• Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Art, Children, Knowledge

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• On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

  George Mikes

  Food, People, Cooking

  How to Be an Alien (1946)

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• Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

  Quentin Crisp

  Block, Lying, People

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

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• Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

  Alfred Agache

  Motivational, Thank You, Thankful

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• Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

  Colley Cibber

  Good Man, Screw You, Compass

  Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not”, p.49

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• The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

  Oscar Wilde

  Oysters, World, Table Manners

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• Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

  Benjamin Banneker

  Communication, Science, Evil

  Friends' Intelligencer, Volume XI (p. 821), 1854.

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• Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Memorable, Good Man

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.672, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

  Laurence Sterne

  Respect, Self Esteem, Ethics

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• Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Literature, Appreciated, Rudeness

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

  Mark Twain

  Children, Effort, Parent

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• You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

  Lillian Gish

  Life, Good Man, Manners

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• The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Good Man, Manners

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• Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

  Coco Chanel

  Men, Good Man, Style

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• For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.

  John Steinbeck

  Worry, Gentleman, Gone

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• The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Soul, Good Man

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• The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Patience, Tests, Table Manners

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• 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

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• You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Witty, Rude

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.38, Bantam

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• A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Men, People

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• You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

  Robert MacNeil

  Manners, Certain, Diplomacy

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