Manners Quotes - Page 11

• Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

  David Riesman

  Mean, People, Etiquette

  David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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• It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Morning, Night, Gentleman

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• The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.

  Philip Roth

  Blue, Funeral, Waiting

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Sex, Dying, Moral

  Under the Volcano ch. 12 (1947)

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• I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.

  Joy Baluch

  Bangs, Tables, Results

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• I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

  Edward Bond

  Writing, Negativity, Shapes

  Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

  Michael Symon

  Kids, Skills, Listening

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• The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

  Henry Walter Bates

  People, Giving, Southern

  Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.23

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• I never let my politics supersede my manners.

  Darren Criss

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• When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Silence, Good Man

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• Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

  Anna Camp

  South Carolina, Cotillion, Grew Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.

  Roman Coppola

  Japan, Kyoto, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Glasses, People, House

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• It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

  Katherine Helmond

  Children, Reading, Drawing

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• The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

  Thomas More

  Peace, Delight, Chivalry

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• The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Ignorance, Good Man, Privacy

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• Civility is not simply about manners.

  Jim Leach

  Civility

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• Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

  John Shelton Reed

  Moving, Past, Yankees

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• Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Block, Building, Civil Society

  Alexander McCall Smith (2004). “The Sunday Philosophy Club”, p.153, Anchor

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• I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'

  Julian Lennon

  Erosion, Scary, Upset

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

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• The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

  Charles Mengel Allen

  Boards, Use, Driving

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• If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.

  Richard Rosen

  Dog, Acting, Behaviour

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• We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Reality, Justice, Mind

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• Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.

  Thomas Lickona

  Family, Children, Parent

  Thomas Lickona (2012). “Raising Good Children: From Birth Through The Teenage Years”, p.84, Bantam

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