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Tag Name "Manners" (655)

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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
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There is no nobility with bad manners.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Alfred P. Sloan
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The greater man the greater courtesy.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Some people really need to be taught some manners, he said disdainfully. I stared up at him. Would you really have gotten in a fight for me? Of course. He didn't hesitate. But there were four of them. Beth, I'd take on Megatron's army to protect you. Who?
Alexandra Adornetto
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A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
Alexander Woollcott
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
Alexander Pope
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Alexander Pope
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
Alexander Pope
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A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
William Cowper
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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
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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
Aldous Huxley
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
William Hazlitt
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Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.
Aldo Gucci
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
William Howard Taft
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As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.
Alberto Manguel
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A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.
William Maxwell
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The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.
Alexander Woollcott
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