MANNERS QUOTES V

quotations about manners

Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves,
Where manners ne'er were preach'd.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Twelfth Night

Tags: William Shakespeare


Manners are the shadows of virtues.

SYDNEY SMITH

Sermons

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

DYLAN THOMAS

Rebecca's Daughters


Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom code. Yet, so long as it is the highest circle, in the imagination of the best heads on the planet, there is something necessary and excellent in it; for it is not to be supposed that men have agreed to be the dupes of anything preposterous; and the respect which these mysteries inspire in the most rude and sylvan characters, and the curiosity with which details of high life are read, betray the universality of the love of cultivated manners.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Manners", Essays

Tags: Ralph Waldo Emerson


We ought always to conform to the manners of the great number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves.

MOLIÈRE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Ladies will sooner pardon want of sense than want of manners.

VENERONI

attributed, Day's Collacon


He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

attributed, Life of Samuel Johnson

Tags: Samuel Johnson