Motivational Quotes

Manners

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

- Cassis, John

Best Quotes about Manners

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Post, Emily

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.

Burke, Edmund

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Vanderbilt, Amy

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Twain, Mark

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

O'Connor, Flannery

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

Jordan, June

Manners make the person.

Motto

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Joubert, Joseph

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Mann, Horace

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If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Smith, Sydney

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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Swift, Jonathan

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He is the very pineapple of politeness!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Voltaire

18.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Cassis, John

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If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.

Eccles, David

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Balzac, Honore De

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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Lowell, James Russell

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Manners are love in a cool climate.

Crisp, Quentin

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Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.

Proverb, Persian

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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.

Confucius

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The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Simms, William Gilmore

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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

Hume, David

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Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

Wanamaker, John

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Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love --now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greater person is one of courtesy.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.

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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Lewis, Wyndham