Quotes: manners
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Lord Chesterfield
English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope)
1694-1773
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
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Bad manners make a journalist.
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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
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Lord Chesterfield
English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope)
1694-1773
Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker
1813-1887
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
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Lord Chesterfield
English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope)
1694-1773
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
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Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
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I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
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Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
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