(450 quotes found)
“Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.”
Aleister Crowley
“I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.”
Courtney Love
“Where there are no women there are no good manners”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine”
Oliver Goldsmith
“You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.”
Aristophanes
“You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.”
Rita Mae Brown
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.”
Lord Acton
“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 Alcott
“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”
Horace Mann