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Manners are the ornament of action. - Samuel Smiles Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing. - Samuel Smiles Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect. If we strive to become, then, what we strive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties. - Sydney Smith Wisdom, valor, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed of these excellences if he wants that inferior art of line and behavior called good breeding. - Sir Richard Steele Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men's power to be agreeable. - Jonathan Swift Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. - Jonathan Swift One principal part of good breeding is to suit our behavior to the three several degrees of men: our superiors, our equals, and those below us. - Jonathan Swift Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world. - Jonathan Swift Her manners had not that repose Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere (st. 5) Suit your manner to the man. [Lat., Ut homo est, ita morem geras.] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Adelphi (III, 3, 78) Obsequiousness begets friends; truth, hatred. [Lat., Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit.] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Andria (I, 1, 41) Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. - Clarence Thomas Truth, justice, and reason lose all their force, and all their lustre, when they are not accompanied with agreeable manners. - James Thomson (1) There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success. - Henry Theodore Tuckerman Better too much form than too little. - Archbishop Richard Whately Good manners are a part of good morals. - Archbishop Richard Whately Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man. - Archbishop Richard Whately To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; because the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. - Archbishop Richard Whately An imposing air should always be taken as an evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. - Edwin Percy Whipple Manners,--the final and perfect flower of noble character. - William Winter Displaying page 5 of 5 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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