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Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.
Any guy I date has to have manners - you know, get the door. And he has to have confidence and be secure in who he is.
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.
My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right and to have manners.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
Song Joong-ki is known for his sincerity and manners. He is younger than me, but I thought I learned many things from him.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.
Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.
When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.
It's not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It's an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a part of good manners.
I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying to impress me.
I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.
Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'
That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
Flannery O'Connor is my creative hero. I think she's the greatest American writer. Her book, 'Mystery and Manners,' is my creative bible.
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This is a game, not war.
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.
One of the few things I like about Bill Clinton is that he has very good manners. If his momma were still alive, I would congratulate her.
We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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.
Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.
The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.
I dreamed my way into Lincoln and the details that moved me - his lack of education or 'civilized' manners and his deep connection to all humankind.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.