Quotes of: Mannerisms Keyword

The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson

It is bad manners to say that you will piss on anyone. Very bad. It is bad manners and very stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed. It is very bad manners and even more stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are ...

James Clavell

It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.

The Other Alexander

Bad manners does not mean they make bad company.

Prince of the Vale

You don't get to be the president of anything if you have bad manners.

Vampire Syndrome

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Mignon McLaughlin

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

Paul Johnson

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Paul Theroux

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Robert MacNeil

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Richard Whately

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Margaret Walker

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Bryan Cranston

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.

Elon Musk

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Roger Moore

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.

Terry Wogan

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Health is like water, wealth is like sugar and manner is like a tea bag. Thus, manner determines everything.

Dr Sivakumar Gowder

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Amy Vanderbilt

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

Life