Manners Quotes

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. (Oliver Goldsmith)
What times! What manners! View quote
Cicero
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. View quote
Laurence Sterne
As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. View quote
Sydney Smith
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. View quote
Walt Whitman
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. (Thomas Hardy)
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. View quote
Alexander Pope
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. View quote
Aleister Crowley
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
We dont bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we dont dress well and weve got no manners. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
On the Continent people have good food; in England, people have good table manners. View quote
George Mikes
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. View quote
William Wilberforce
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. View quote
Henry Fielding
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. View quote
Paul Theroux
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners. View quote
Colley Cibber
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. View quote
Honoré de Balzac