Manners Quotes
On etiquette, civility, and the character behind it.
Good manners are often tested not by comfortable company but by rude ones, and several quotes here explore that patience. Others look at manners as a marker of culture and era, sitting alongside our Good Manners collection for a closer focus on courtesy.
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
There's a real intense thing about manners in the South, a real prescribed way to be a woman.
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.
For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.
Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.
Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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.
