Quotes by Manners Untimely conduct is the discord of manners. Louise Colet discord manners Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. Lynne Truss persons imagination manners Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. Madame de Stael courtesy manners art Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad. Malcolm Forbes moral drinking manners People who stare deserve the looks they get. Malcolm Forbes manners people looks as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility. Margaret Deland truthfulness incompatibility manners Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners. Margaret Millar excuse problem manners Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly. Margaret Mead manners [Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. Margaret Mitchell accents yankees manners What times! What manners! Marcus Tullius Cicero society manners Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach morality moral manners Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. Maurice Baring rude ifs manners I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners. Maureen Johnson lunatic may manners Good manners can render even virtue tolerable. Mason Cooley good-man virtue manners Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable. Mason Cooley good-man vulnerable manners Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors! Mehmet Murat Ildan good-man doors manners I was born modest, but it didn't last. Mark Twain moral lasts manners A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant. Michel de Montaigne wells manners men We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose. Mignon McLaughlin purpose helping manners Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat. Mignon McLaughlin cookies lasts manners «23456789101112»