Manners Quotes

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

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

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

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

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

You lose your manners when you are poor.