Manners Quotes - Page 28

• Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

  Aleister Crowley

  Nature, Fighting, People

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.

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• When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

  William Feather

  Children, Lying, Moral

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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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• A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

  Selena Gomez

  People, Cameras, Would Be

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• It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Littles, Too Much, Would Be

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• Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

  Thomas Hardy

  Moral, Argument, Poet

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Hand Of Ethelberta”, p.26, Thomas Hardy

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• Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Kids, Littles

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

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• I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

  Hugh Jackman

  Party, Parent, Dinner

  Interview With Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

  Henry James

  Men, Moral, Bad Manners

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• Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

  Joseph Joubert

  Grace, Feelings, Movement

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.60

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• A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Phones, Goats, Opinion

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• Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

  Ann Landers

  Sacrifice, Class, Considerate

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

  Robert MacNeil

  Certain, Diplomacy, Approach

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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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• I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

  Margaret Mead

  Respect, People, Way

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• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  A Book of Burlesques ch. 11 (1920)

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• Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Money, Loss, Men

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• In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

  Bill Nighy

  Real, Believe, People

  "Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2009.

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• It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

  David Ogilvy

  Eye, Men, Magazines

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

  George Orwell

  Equality, Reform, Literature

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

  Alexander Pope

  Children, Men, Simplicity

  'Epitaph: On Mr Gay in Westminster Abbey' (1733)

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• When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

  Helen Rowland

  Heart, Men, Giving

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

  Sydney Smith

  Love, Respect, Shadow

  "Sermons".

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• Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Two, Example, Flattery

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• The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

  Paul Theroux

  Sarcastic, Rude, Made

  Paul Theroux (1976). “The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia”

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