(450 quotes found)
“I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.”
George Bernard Shaw
“There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.”
J. Martin Kohe
“We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them”
“There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to”
Jane Austen
“A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.”
Edmund Burke
“I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like”
Margaret Mead
“For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Beware of a man with manners.”
Eudora Welty
