Manners Quotes - Page 2

Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

Lord Chatham

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

Lord Chesterfield

Men make laws women make manners.

De Segur

They asked Lucman the fabulist From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.

Sadi

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Bryant McGill

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

Tina Brown

More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.

Mustafa SULTAN

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Oscar Wilde

Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.

Brené Brown

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

Catherynne M. Valente

Network etiquette is our participation in groups. Following Netiquette rules is a contribution. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention.""Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?

Pseudonymous Bosch

I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners."Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction.

Mark Twain

The natural flow of discourse must be calm and serene; if wit, whim, fun and fire are present, they will not fail to flash brightly along its surface; but they can never constitute the main body of the stream itself.

Arthur Martine

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

Edward O. Wilson

The Internet is complicated. Netiquette is simple. Be nice. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

The internet makes every online action memorable. Practice proper Netiquette for good memories. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

The internet is great because of Netiquette we create. Participate and reciprocate. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

Effective internet communication is contact that is acted upon in a good manner, Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

Use Discretion: It is proper netiquette to use discretion, best behavior, in all online activity. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

It is proper netiquette to refrain from using all capital letters in internet correspondence. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

Making your own Netiquette is advanced internet use, but it's not that hard. It's all good. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

Facebook Fun is refined. Reader reviews are rewarding on Goodreads. Retweets are readily available for Twitter teasing. Stay within the Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

Let your internet engagement show your inner beauty through online actions with Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we are gods.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Psychology of small things rules.

Stefan Fatsis

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

Tim Gunn

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.

Rebecca McKinsey

It is never to late to practice proper Netiquette. Start today. Be nice! NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

Good manners is the fabric that holds the community together.

David Esabwa

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

William S Burroughs

Never talk to waiters like that," Kit said."Can I help it," he said, "if I only went one year to finishing school?""It isn't manners," she said like a sensible schoolteacher quietly disciplining a small boy, "it just isn't smart."I thought of the time I first told him not to say ain't. He took this the same way, a little peeved but making mental notes. I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion. I was beginning to see what Kit had for Sammy. Of course she stood for something never within his reach before. But it was more than that. Sammy seemed to know that his career was entering a new cycle where polish paid off. You could almost see him filing off the rough edges against the sharp blade of her mind.

Budd Schulberg

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners

Jasper Fforde

How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.'I'd send her a card alright. It would be the Ace of Spades, and I'd mail it anonymously from somewhere other than Bishop's Lacey.

Alan Bradley

Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.

Shannon L. Alder

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

Georgette Heyer

Snark often functions as an enforcer of mediocrity and conformity. In its cozy knowingness, snark flatters you by assuming that you get the contemptuous joke. You've been admitted, or readmitted, to a club, though it may be the club of the second-rate.

David Denby

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

Judith Martin

Courtesy and kindness cultivate confidence with good Netiquette. Doing things right makes you feel good. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw

Men can go to hell! Iâ€™ll meet them there.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman carrying three grocery bags, a briefcase, and a toddler is seized with the symbolism of idealism.

Judith Martin

Some night soon, I'll sneak back in here and we can eat chocolates until we vomit.""We're such refined, genteel ladies.""Please," Lysandra said, waving a manicured hand, "you and I are nothing but wild beasts wearing human skins. Don't even try to deny it.

Sarah J Maas

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

Beverly Cleary

And if you do see any pirates, I don't want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you understand?

Alexander McCall Smith

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Marian Wright Edelman

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

Jeff Bezos

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

Andrew Levkoff

She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

Cormac McCarthy

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

Solomon ibn Gabirol

He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Since the moment when, at the sight of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions of life and death in the light of the new convictions, as he called them, which between the ages of twenty and thirty-four had imperceptibly replaced the beliefs of his childhood and youth, he had been less horrified by death than by life without the least knowledge of whence it came, what it is for, why, and what it is, Organisms, their destruction, the indestructibility of matter, the law of the conservation of energy, development—the terms that had superseded these beliefs—were very useful for mental purposes; but they gave no guidance for life, and Levin suddenly felt like a person who has exchanged a thick fur coat for a muslin garment and who, being out in the frost for the first time, becomes clearly convinced, not by arguments, but with the whole of his being, that he is as good as naked and that he must inevitably perish miserably.

Leo Tolstoy

Among the people to whom he belonged, nothing was written or talked about at that time except the Serbian war. Everything that the idle crowd usually does to kill time, it now did for the benefit of the Slavs: balls, concerts, dinners, speeches, ladies' dresses, beer, restaurants—all bore witness to our sympathy with the Slavs.With much that was spoken and written on the subject Konyshev did not agree in detail. He saw that the Slav question had become one of those fashionable diversions which, ever succeeding one another, serve to occupy Society; he saw that too many people took up the question from interested motives. He admitted that the papers published much that was unnecessary and exaggerated with the sole aim of drawing attention to themselves, each outcrying the other. He saw that amid this general elation in Society those who were unsuccessful or discontented leapt to the front and shouted louder than anyone else: Commanders-in-Chief without armies, Ministers without portfolios, journalists without papers, and party leaders without followers. He saw that there was much that was frivolous and ridiculous; but he also saw and admitted the unquestionable and ever-growing enthusiasm which was uniting all classes of society, and with which one could not help sympathizing. The massacre of our coreligionists and brother Slavs evoked sympathy for the sufferers and indignation against their oppressors. And the heroism of the Serbs and Montenegrins, fighting for a great cause, aroused in the whole nation a desire to help their brothers not only with words but by deeds.Also there was an accompanying fact that pleased Koznyshev. It was the manifestation of public opinion. The nation had definitely expressed its wishes. As Koznyshev put it, ' the soul of the nation had become articulate.' The more he went into this question, the clearer it seemed to him that it was a matter which would attain enormous proportions and become epoch-making.

Leo Tolstoy

The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.

Josephine Ross

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Theodore Roosevelt

What you post online speaks VOLUME about who you really are. POST with intention. REPOST with caution.

Germany Kent

I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.

Tamora Pierce

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

Frank Herbert

Expecting gratitude for a gift is... unseemly.

Jack Caldwell

Your mood shouldn't dictate your manners.

Turcois Ominek

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