Manners proverbs

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◆ Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

- Patrick Rothfuss99

◆ Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

- Steven Brust99

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

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners

- Laurence Sterne99

◆ For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

- Thomas More99

◆ A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

- Arthur Schopenhauer99

◆ While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice our local destination. But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation, while it is practising iniquity and extravagance, and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candour, frankness, and sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world.

- John Adams99

◆ She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

- Louisa May Alcott98

◆ Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

- Honore De Balzac98

◆ There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

- Jane Austen98

◆ Who casts to write a living line, must sweat

- Ben Jonson98

◆ Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

- Bennett Cerf98

◆ Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished

- Lord Chesterfield98