An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
You lose your manners when you are poor.
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.
As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
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.
Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.
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.
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
Manners are love in a cool climate.
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.
'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
The manners thing's got worse. People think they can just text you if they've got bad news for you. It's not on. And as for people taking pictures at gigs on their phones, that's just weird.
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
I never let my politics supersede my manners.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
