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A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. - Mignon McLaughlin I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. - Margaret Mead Virtue itself offends, when coupled with forbidding manners. - Thomas Middleton A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. - Hannah More We call it only pretty Fanny's way. - Thomas Parnell, An Elegy to an Old Beauty now as to politeness . . . I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles. - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Correspondence (I, 79) Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners, living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 13) She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she must not shout; and she must not, while wearing her bridal veil, smoke a cigarette. - Emily Post Write injuries in dust, But kindnesses in marble. [Fr., Eerivez les injures sue le sable, Mais les bienfaits sur le marbre.] - Proverb, (French) Better were it to be unborn than to be ill-bred. - Sir Walter Raleigh (1) If fine manners are so admirable in men, how much more effective are they in women. - Madame Jeanne Francoise Julie Adelaide Recamier Air and manners are more expressive than words. - Samuel Richardson They ask Lucman, the fabulist, From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly. - Moslih Eddin (Muslih-un-Din) Saadi (Sadi) There is a nobility in the world of manners. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller A company attitude is rarely anybody's best. - Catharine Maria Sedgwick Men make laws; women make manners. - Joseph Alexandre Pierre, Vicomte de Segur The manner of saying or of doing anything goes a great way in the value of the thing itself. It was well said of him that called a good office that was done harshly, and with an ill-will, a stony piece of bread; it is necessary for him that is hungry to receive it, but it almost chokes a man in the going down. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) What once were vices, are now the manners of the day. [Lat., Quae fuerant vitia mores sunt.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (XXXIX) Defect of manners, want of government, Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain; The least of which, haunting a nobleman, Loseth men's hearts, and leaves behind a stain Upon the beauty of all parts besides; Beguiling them of commendation. - William Shakespeare Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves, Where manners ne'er were preach'd. - William Shakespeare O place, O form, How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls To thy false seeming! - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Angelo at II,iii) Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Griffith at IV, ii) Ungracious wretch, Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, Where manners ne'er were preached! - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Olivia at IV, i) It is the manner which is better than all. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) Displaying page 4 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5
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