Manners Quotes - page 15

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)

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Emily Post

We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.

Gary Vaynerchuk

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

Hilari Bell

You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.

Ilona Andrews

On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.

Ilona Andrews

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

Civility is not simply about manners.

Jim Leach

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

Jonathan Raban

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

Julian Lennon

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners. (Letitia Baldrige)

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

Lynne Truss

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

Lynne Truss

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Gerald F. Lieberman

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

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

Oliver Hudson

Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

Patricia Briggs

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

Patricia Briggs

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

Penelope Keith

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Robert Rainy

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners. (Rosalind Wiseman)

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Stephen Bayley

I dont like it when people dont hold the door. I dont know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

Taylor Schilling

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Zebulon Pike

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

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