Manners Quotes - Page 22

• A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Distance, Degrees, World

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• Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Men, Different

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• I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dog, Eye, Play

  "Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.

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• I heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your mind andyour manners, to be useful and agreeable to yourself, your country, and your friends.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, New Year, Home

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• Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.

  C. A. Bartol

  Credit, Letters, Fine

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• I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Believe, Fall, Men

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• There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kindness, Thoughtful, Breeding

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• What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Talent, Wealth

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• When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Home, Men, Care

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• The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Order, Land, Voice

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Humility, Jewels, Quality

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• For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

  E. M. Forster

  Class, Gentility

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• Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism--that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners. In the democracy of the caffè or the street the great question of our life has been solved, and the brotherhood of man is a reality. But it is accomplished at the expense of the sisterhood of women.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Reality, Sisterhood

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature”, p.31, 谷月社

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• A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Wells, Sociable

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• Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Taken, Men, Long

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• I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
  And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

  W. S. Gilbert

  Income, Return, Compare

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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• I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer,
  I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer;
  To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two;
  I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do

  W. S. Gilbert

  Two, Age, Prejudice

  'Princess Ida' (1884) act 1

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• If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
  I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham.
  Each little fault of temper and each social defect
  In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Giving, Attention, Erring

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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• How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the chances to recover and try again? How does one break the news that nothing permanent can be formed in an instant--children are not weaned, potty trained, taught manners, introduced to civilization in one or two tries--as everyone imagined.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Mistake, Opportunity

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• The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

  Anton Chekhov

  Education, Men, Culture

  Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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• Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Covered Up, People

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• I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

  Duke of Wellington

  Small Talk

  In G. W. E. Russell 'Collections and Recollections' (1898) ch. 14

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• Teach a child good manners during babyhood.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Children, Good Man, Teach

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• Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

  Charlton Heston

  Political, Wish, Pockets

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• A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Party, Eye, Hands

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