manners quotes

• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. (Fred Astaire) [face/etiquette]
• Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance (Henry Ward Beecher) [etiquette/]
• He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. (Walter Benjamin) [etiquette]
• 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) [etiquette/more/etiquette]
• Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [company/account/etiquette/willpower]
• Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [etiquette/knowledge]
• Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [exercise/mind/etiquette/give]
• Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [defense/etiquette]
• Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [laughter/etiquette]
• 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. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [morals/mankind/etiquette/etiquette]
• Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. (Aleister Crowley) [/etiquette/people/facts]
• Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. (Benjamin Disraeli) [etiquette/life]
• Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [etiquette]
• 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. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [etiquette/genius/love/form]
• Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [etiquette/time/more]
• The basis of good manners is self-reliance. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [basis/etiquette]
• 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. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/etiquette/art]
• Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [etiquette]
• Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. (Benjamin Franklin) [etiquette]
• The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [form/fraud/etiquette/morals]
• Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. (Thomas Hardy) [poets/morals/etiquette/argument]
• A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. (Henry James) [women/etiquette/morals]
• They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. (Samuel Johnson) [teach/morals/etiquette/dancing]
• Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [/character/etiquette/literary style]
• I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. (James Lowell) [mind/democracy/etiquette/weapons]
• Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. (Dorothy Parker) [etiquette/right/point]
• No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. (John Ruskin) [etiquette]
• What once were vices are manners now. ( Seneca) [etiquette]
• Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away. (George Bernard Shaw) [willpower/etiquette]
• The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another. (George Bernard Shaw) [etiquette/etiquette/etiquette/human]
• Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. (Sydney Smith) [etiquette/love/respect]

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