406 Quotes About Manners

The Church should adapt itself to the manners of the time, since it seems only too clear that the manners of the time adapt themselves less and less to the Church.

Let me tell you, sir, that if you wish to be accepted into Bath society you will do well to mend your manners!’ retorted Abby. ‘I’ve none to mend, and not the smallest wish to be accepted into Bath, or any other, society.

Vijaya prefers to eat alone. Rob ushered her into the room and held a chair for her, then sat across from her. "Many Indians regard eating as something that should be done in private. Considering the table manners of some of our best people, one can see their point." Patricia Frances Rowell

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you"; "It is easier to be critical than correct"- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors.

Do not descend, but rise above so ill-mannered a person.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners. In twenty years, they’d have country houses and children with pretentious literary names and tennis lessons and ugly cars and liaisons with hot young interns. Hurricanes of entitlement, all swirl and noise and destruction, nothing at their centers.

A woman who attempts a public career must expect to be treated as public property: what would be an intrusion on a domiciled gentlewoman is a tribute to me.