Manners Quotations
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| Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse? | |||
| - John Barth | |||
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| Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. | |||
| - Ambrose Bierce | |||
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| Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. | |||
| - Bennett Cerf | |||
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| Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
| Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| It's not a slam at you when people are rude - it's a slam at the people they've met before. | |||
| - F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||
| Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it. | |||
| - F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||
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| A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. | |||
| - Lord Halifax | |||
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| Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. | |||
| - Eric Hoffer | |||
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| There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. | |||
| - E.V. Lucas | |||
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| I don't think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards. | |||
| - William Somerset Maugham | |||
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| Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
| Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it." | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident. | |||
| - P.J. O'Rourke | |||
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| Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. | |||
| - Cesare Pavese | |||
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| Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. | |||
| - Emily Post | |||
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| People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. | |||
| - French Proverb | |||
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| Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. | |||
| - Arthur Schopenhauer | |||