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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.

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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Quotes by Zebulon Pike

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God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

Quotes by William Wilberforce

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He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

Quotes by William Gilbert

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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Quotes by Wendell Willkie

Bad Quotes

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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.

Quotes by Thomas Malthus

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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Quotes by Thomas Hardy

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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Quotes by Stephen Bayley

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Song Joong-ki is known for his sincerity and manners. He is younger than me, but I thought I learned many things from him.

Quotes by Song Hye-kyo

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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.

Quotes by Simone Weil

Good Quotes

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It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.

Quotes by Ronnie Corbett

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One historic reflection even ties good manners to a much larger call for moral reform in society, showing how the idea stretches beyond etiquette alone. Browse Bad quotes for the flip side, or Good quotes for more positive reflections.