Quotes by Manners 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. 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. Samuel Johnson courtesy manners Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Samuel Johnson benevolence politeness manners What once were vices are manners now. Seneca the Younger vices manners Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence. Sir Fulke Greville unbecoming ignorance manners 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. 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. Texas Guinan orchids moral manners 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 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. 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 «4567891011121314»