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Air and manners are more expressive than words. by Samuel Richardson

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Samuel Richardson
expressive air manners

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

Sandra Day O'Connor
civility conflict manners
Manners are the ornament of action. by Samuel Smiles

Manners are the ornament of action.

Samuel Smiles
ornaments action manners

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

Samuel Johnson
friends failing manners

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
refinement strengthening manners

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Samuel Johnson
elegance mark manners
He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it. by Samuel Johnson

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

Samuel Johnson
courtesy manners
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. by Samuel Johnson

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Samuel Johnson
benevolence politeness manners
What once were vices are manners now. by Seneca the Younger

What once were vices are manners now.

Seneca the Younger
vices manners
Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impud... by Sir Fulke Greville

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

Sir Fulke Greville
unbecoming ignorance manners
Good manners are never passé. by Slim Aarons

Good manners are never passé.

Slim Aarons
good-manners good-man manners

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

Stanley Walker
instinct running manners

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

Stella Gibbons
cold-comfort-farm rudeness manners
There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes. by Steven Brust

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

Steven Brust
reflexes no-excuses manners

Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

Tacitus
glances saws manners
He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave... by Texas Guinan

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

Texas Guinan
orchids moral manners
It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women. by Theophile Gautier

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

Theophile Gautier
irresistible gentle manners
As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conver... by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
elements dresses manners
Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child. by Terry Pratchett

Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

Terry Pratchett
pull-ups manners children

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

Terry Pratchett
opinion belief manners
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