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Bad manners make a journalist.
There is no nobility with bad manners.
I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.
Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.
There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
I don't accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.
My grandmother used to teach me that it's bad manners to invite yourself to somebody's house.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!
I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
I get more disgusted with men all the time - particularly traveling Americans. They start out on a trip to Europe and never bother to pack a dinner jacket. This is not only stupid - it's bad manners.
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.