Manners quotations

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◆ The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.

- Khalil Gibran99

◆ 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 Heyer99

◆ A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.

- Kathy Griffin99

◆ Being classy is my teenage rebellion.

- Rebecca McKinsey99

◆ And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

- Dylan Thomas99

◆ Handsome is as handsome does

- J.R.R. Tolkien99

◆ No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

- Bryant McGill99

◆ 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.

- Emily Post99

◆ God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

- William Arthur Ward99

◆ Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

- Bell Hooks99

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

- Theodore Roosevelt99

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

- Tim Gunn99

◆ It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

- Mary Wollstonecraft99

◆ I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was ‘excuse me'.

- Bauvard99