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"What sort of a doctor is he?" "Well, I don't know much about his ability; but he's got a very good bedside manner." - Unattributed Author, Punch, accompanying a drawing by G. Du Maurier Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. - Amos Bronson Alcott The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. - Fred Astaire When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more? - Honore de Balzac Phone for the fish-knives, Norman As Cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I must have things daintily served. - John Betjeman, How to get on in Society Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing. - Hugh Blair Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty. - Fredrika Bremer The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colors to our lives. According to their quality they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them. - Edmund Burke He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto III, st. 41) Manners are stronger than laws. - Thomas Carlyle Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar. - Jason Chamberlain, in inaugural address at University of Vermont, 1811 A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but it will never be worn, nor shine, if it is not polished. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letters When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3) I shall ever remember the gentleness of your manners and the wild originality of your countenance. - Claire Clairmont, Letter to Lord Byron A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. - William Cowper, Conversation (l. 193) Nobody ought to have been able to resist her coaxing manner; and nobody had any business to try. Yet she never seemed to know it was her manner at all. That was the best of it. - Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (vol. II, ch. XIV) Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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