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Manners Quotes

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. Flannery O'Connor
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 Post
Tina Brown quote: "Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by..."
Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question. Tina Brown
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste."
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quentin Crisp quote: "Manners are love in a cool climate."
Manners are love in a cool climate. Quentin Crisp
Richard Whately quote: "Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever..."
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man. Richard Whately
Evelyn Waugh quote: "Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can..."
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. Evelyn Waugh
Horace Mann quote: "Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals."
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. Horace Mann
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. Sydney Smith
Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person. Usain Bolt
Honore de Balzac quote: "Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. Honore de Balzac
Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them. The essence of good manners is not exclusivity, nor exclusion of any kind, but sensitivity. To practice good manners is to confer upon others not just consideration but esteem; it's to bathe others in a commodity best described by noted speller Aretha Franklin. Henry Alford
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners. Barbara Kingsolver
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. John McGahern

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