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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) Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure. - Ralph Waldo Emerson We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life--Behavior Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled. - Owen Felltham (Feltham) It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women. - Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Intercourse with women is the element of good manners. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Manners form the great charm of women. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The company of chaste women is the proper atmosphere of good manners. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Wahlverwandtschaften (II, 5, Aus Ottiliens Tagebuche) Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence. - Sir Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Lord Brooke Displaying page 2 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5
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