Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness."
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Manners
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Dylan Thomas
Poet, Writer
"And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."
Diana Vreeland
Fashion Editor
"Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything."
Horace Mann
Educator
"Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals."
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"Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question."
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"Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage."
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"Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear."
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"The society of women is the element of good manners."
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"Dressing well is an expression of manners."
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"In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts."
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"A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals."
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"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."
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"Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own."
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"The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion."
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"Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners."
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"We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners."
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"I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me."
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"Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery."
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"Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself."
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"Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration."
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"Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened."
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"Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close."
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"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."
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"Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages."
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