Manners Quotes

43 quotations about Manners
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman · Manners
Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
Proverb · Manners
Civility costs nothing.
Proverb · Manners
Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
Persian Proverb · Manners
Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
Sir Walter Raleigh · Manners
What once were vices are manners now.
Seneca · Manners
He is the very pineapple of politeness!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan · Manners
The only true source of politeness is consideration.
William Gilmore Simms · Manners
Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Manners
The greater person is one of courtesy.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Manners
To be a successful hostess, when guest arrive say, At last! and when they leave say, So soon!
Source Unknown · Manners
Politeness is benevolence in small things.
Source Unknown · Manners
Manners are happy ways of doing things.
Source Unknown · Manners
Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.
Source Unknown · Manners
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Voltaire · Manners
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
John Wanamaker · Manners
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Evelyn Waugh · Manners
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell L. Willkie · Manners

Authors on Manners

Honore De Balzac Malcolm Bradbury John Cassis Lord Chesterfield Marcus T. Cicero Confucius Quentin Crisp Will Cuppy Benjamin Disraeli David Eccles Ralph Waldo Emerson Benjamin Franklin Oliver Goldsmith Eric Hoffer Joseph Joubert Jean De La Bruyere Wyndham Lewis Alexander Maclaren Horace Mann Motto