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