Manners Quotes - Page 35

• There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered and alienated from each other.... The genius of republics, say they, is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into wars. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste themselves in ruinous contentions with each other. They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Men, Mutual Interest

  "The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793".

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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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• Bad manners make a journalist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Journalist, Bad Manners

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

  Edmund Burke

  Death, Men, America

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.250

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• I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

  Deborah Levy

  Moving, Past, Cities

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• A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.

  Andie MacDowell

  Country, Giving Up, Women

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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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• My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.

  Tim Gunn

  Hurt, College, Honest

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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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• I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

  Emilio Estevez

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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• I've never turned blue in someone else's
  bathroom. I consider that the height of bad
  manners.

  Keith Richards

  Blue, Height, Bathroom

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• But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.

  Zosia Mamet

  Dad, Father, Thoughtful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

  Ronan Farrow

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• Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Pain, Teaching

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• I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

  Edith Wharton

  Beauty, America, Despair

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

  Edward Abbey

  Democracy, Way, Rich

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

  Edward Abbey

  Practice, Dueling, Might

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Funny, Humor, Places To Go

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• The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Two, World, Moral

  Shouts and Murmurs "The Actor and the Streetwalker" (1922)

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• The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Republican, Criteria

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• The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London.

  Karl Marx

  Hate, Struggle, Men

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

  Hannibal

  Disappointment, Good Man, Ability To Communicate

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• Where there are no women there are no good manners

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Good Man, Good Manners

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• I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed in my lifetime. I really think it’s coarsened. It’s coarsened in so many ways. One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You can’t go to a movie — or watch a television show for that matter — without hearing the constant use of the F-word — including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know don’t talk like that!

  Antonin Scalia

  Kids, Thinking, Grandchildren

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