MANNERS QUOTES III

quotations about manners

Truth, justice, and reason lose all their force and all their lustre when they are not accompanied with agreeable manners.

J. THOMSON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Virtue itself offends when coupled with forbidding manners.

BISHOP MIDDLETON

attributed, Treasury of Thought


Emperors and rich men are by no means the most skillful masters of good manners. No rent roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulations: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all forms of good-breeding point that way.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Manners", Essays

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If we strive to become, then, what we strive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties.

SYDNEY SMITH

Sermons

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It's always galling to be taught good manners by an enemy.

K. J. PARKER

Devices and Desires

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Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.

EDMUND BURKE

Letters On a Regicide Peace

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If refinement does not lead directly to purity of manners, it obviates at least their greatest depravation.

SIR J. REYNOLDS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Manners are guideposts for behavior that serve as helpful road signs on the path of human interaction.

JUNE EDING

Manners That Matter Most


Air and manners are more expressive than words.

S. RICHARDSON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Art polishes man, and manners distinguish him from the brute creation.

OVID

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Good manners are buffers between egos; they are the ways of civilized people.

JOHN B. STEWART

Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy


Bad manners are the fruits of a coarse nature and unwise training.

CLARA JESSUP MOORE

Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society


Should we distrust [a] man because his manners are not our manners?

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

The Last of the Mohicans

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There is no outward mark of politeness that does not have a profound moral reason. The right education would be that which taught the outward mark and the moral reason together.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Elective Affinities

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There


That makes the good and bad of manners, namely, what helps or hinders fellowship.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Manners", Essays

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The importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them.

NICOLE KRAUSS

Great House


Whoever in a state knows how to form wisely the manners and men and to rule them at home and in war, by excellent institutions, him in the first place above all others I should esteem worthy of honor.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Tablets

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Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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A man's own manner and character is what best becomes him.

CICERO

attributed, Day's Collacon