Good Manners Quotes - Page 6

• I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Girl, Intelligent, Arrogance

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• Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Truth, Humble, Good Man

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.262, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Teach a child good manners during babyhood.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Children, Good Man, Manners

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• Good manners are a part of good morals.

  Richard Whately

  Good Man, Moral, Manners

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.244

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• Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Good Man, Aristocracy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• It has always been like that with changes. In 1913, we established divorce as a right for women in Uruguay. You know what they were saying back then? That families would dissolve. That it was the end of good manners and society. There has always been a conservative and traditional opinion out there that's afraid of change. When I was young and would go dancing at balls, we'd have to wear suits and ties. Otherwise they wouldn't let us in. I don't think anyone dresses up for dancing parties nowadays.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Party, Humble

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• The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

  Hugh Massingberd

  Love, Life, Family

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• I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

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• Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

  Christopher Morley

  Teacher, Good Man, Unhappy

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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• Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering effective self-expression and communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness, mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community and concern for the health of our society is also involved in civility.

  P. M. Forni

  Respect, Nice, Communication

  "Einstein Was a Mensch" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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• Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Liars, Men, Vanity

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

  Laura Esquivel

  Personality, Gathering, Doe

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• Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

  William Howard Taft

  Golf, Men, Self

  Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

  Hannibal

  Disappointment, Good Man, Manners

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• Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to her, Jon cast about for some sort of polite conversation pertinent to the occasion. “I hate funerals, don’t you?” He said. “I rather like them,” she said smugly. “At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

  Judith McNaught

  Hate, Elderly, Funeral

  Judith McNaught (2003). “Paradise”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Sexy, Men, Good Man

  "Ask A Supermodel: Valentine's Tips For Men". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. February 12, 2012.

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• I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

  Michelle Sagara

  Hate, Thinking, Gathering

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril”, p.1080, MIRA

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• Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair's effect, or a sculpture's. You're part of someone's view, you're part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it's a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can.

  Tom Ford

  Views, Good Man, Trying

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• Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

  Lynne Truss

  Drawing, Roots, Attention

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, www.today.com. November 6, 2003.

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• My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners.

  Matt Bomer

  Doors, People, Parent

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• In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

  Russell Brand

  Police, Good Man, England

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

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• Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

  Peter Mayle

  Positive, Men, Good Man

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• All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

  E. O. Wilson

  Mean, Self, Practice

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• As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Art, Psychology, Good Man

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• Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Air, Space, Long

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