Manners Quotes - page 19

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it. (Nicolas Cage)
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. View quote
Helen Rowland
The Major was a courteous man, judicious and sensible, but he doubted the fighting efficiency of the South Essex would be improved by a campaign to improve its manners. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners. View quote
Tom Robbins
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance. View quote
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Within a surprisingly short space of time, however, the fortunes of the neo-roman theory began to decline and fall. ... One reason for this collapse was that the social assumptions underlying the theory began to appear outdated and even absurd. With the extension of the manners of the court to the bourgeoisie in the early eighteenth century, the virtues of the independent country gentleman began to look irrelevant and even inimical to a polite commercial age. The hero of the neo-roman writers came to be viewed not as plain-hearted but as rude and boorish; not as upright but as obstinate and quarrelsome; not as a man of fortitude but of mere insensibility. View quote
Quentin Skinner
Great talents are not, before God, a substitute for love for Himself; the possession of a profound intellect does not free any man from the obligations resting on the heart for purity and holiness; a reputation for attainments in science does not settle the question whether he is righteous before his Maker; refined manners are not, in the sight of God, a substitute for the graces of the Spirit; God does not justify man on the ground of human learning; attainments in chemistry, anatomy, geology, botany, astronomy, or skill in sculpture and painting, - these do not prepare a man to die. View quote
Albert Barnes
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy. View quote
Amos Bronson Alcott
Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals. View quote
Art Spander
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices. View quote
Ann Landers
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Why care about social formalities, modes of dress, niceties of speech, qualities of restraint? Not simply because manners make the man, although they do, but because manners also shape political cultures. View quote
Bret Stephens
Break free, my soul, good manners are thy tomb! View quote
Thomas Sturge Moore
Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author will have to be respected, and the machine will have to mind its manners. (Robertson Davies)
Did you sleep well last night?” asked Glorian. "Yes, I suppose,” said Dore, "although I was trouble by a strange dream.” "Oh? Perhaps it was some sort of omen. Tell me of it.” "Certainly,” said Dore. "I dreamed of a domino.” "Just one?” "Yes, just the one. All night. No people or sounds in the dream, just the domino. The five-three.” "Wonderful!” cried Glorian. "The five-three is a lucky little devil. It presages victory after hardships. It confirms your inner ambition, but counsels you to avoid extremes, to temper pleasure with practicality. Advances in music, art, and drama are indicated. Rely on good manners and good taste. The five-three is a domino of hope and good news. View quote
George Alec Effinger
It is altogether reasonable to conclude that the heavenly bodies, alias worlds, which move or are situate within the circle of our knowledge, as well all others throughout immensity, are each and every one of them possessed or inhabited by some intelligent agents or other, however different their sensations or manners of receiving or communicating their ideas may be from ours, or however different from each other. View quote
Ethan Allen
Variant translative: Intercourse with women is the element of good manners. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where there are no women there are no good manners. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe