You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.
In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
Lack of etiquette and manners is a huge turn off. Men who don't behave decently are irritating. Also, I don't like guys who show off. When will guys realize that girls hate showoffs!
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.
My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too much fun to settle down.
I believe in teaching manners without causing fisticuffs.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.
One of the few things I like about Bill Clinton is that he has very good manners. If his momma were still alive, I would congratulate her.
Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.
I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.