Quotes: manners
Quotes 1 till 15 of 78.
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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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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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Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Source: As quoted in Friends Intelligencer Vol. XI -
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
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Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
Source: Blast from the Past -
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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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
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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.
