Quotes: Manners

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one… If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores – Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

You lose your manners when you are poor.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.