Manners+Quotes


 * Manners Quotes **

  “Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. - Emily Post (1872-1960), American Author On Etiquette

 “Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.” - Unknown

 “I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. ” - Og Mandino (1923-1996), Essayist, Psychologist

"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance." - Henry Ward Beecher

"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any." - Fred Astaire

"You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners." - Lillian Gish

"Manners are of more importance than laws...Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in." - Edmund Burke

"Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man." - Richard Whately

"Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man." - J.K. Rowling

"Manners are stronger than laws." - Thomas Carlyle

"To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable." ~Barry M. Goldwater and Jack Casserly, //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Goldwater //

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. ~Bill Kelly

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. ~Abel Stevens

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. ~Maurice Baring

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ~Bennett Cerf

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. ~Bernie Brillstein, //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Little Stuff Matters Most //

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It's not a slam at you when people are rude - it's a slam at the people they've met before. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="body" style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. - Margaret Walker

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="body" style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. - Bryant McGill

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="body" style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. - Og Mandino