The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.
I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.
When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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.
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.
Most women find a man with good manners sexy.