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Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
Ann Landers
Good
Class
Nothing
Manners
Petty
Others
Considerate
Good Manners
More
Sacrifices
Knows
Than
Series
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Bryant H. McGill
Good
Manners
Good Manners
Bad
Bad Manners
Much
Appreciated
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
Roger Moore
Love
Teacher
Good
Home
Will
Parents
Manners
Good Manners
Some
Drift
Classroom
Generosity
Knows
Educating
Children
Teach
Who
It's so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated.
David Beckham
Life
People
Treat
Important
Walks
Manners
Way
Should
Treated
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Enid Bagnold
Marriage
Luxury
Criticism
Manners
Other
Beneath
Wildest
Ancient
Ourselves
Ring
Wedding
Wedding Ring
Real
Up
Erupt
Familiar
Child
Accusation
May
Again
Ageless
Who
Each
Ridiculous
Keep
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
Lillian Gish
Life
Good
You
Manners
Good Manners
Easier
Bad
Bad Manners
Through
Get
When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.
Paul Johnson
Good
People
Political
Value
Manners
Good Manners
Correctness
About
Only
Talk
Political Correctness
Any
Element
For some people, the definition of who is and who isn't an American defies logic, historical accuracy, common sense, decency, good manners, the milk of human kindness, enjoyment in the good things in life, and love of good food.
W. Kamau Bell
Life
Love
Kindness
Good
Food
People
Good Things
Some People
Decency
Sense
Manners
Good Manners
Definition
Logic
Some
Historical
Accuracy
American
Human
Common
Common Sense
Human Kindness
Who
Milk
Good Food
Things
Enjoyment
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Benjamin Disraeli
Life
Life Is Hard
Manners
Nowadays
Easy
Hard
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Evelyn Waugh
Manners
Pretty
Get
Anything
Plain
Away
Need
The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.
Judith Martin
You
Manners
More
Greater
Controversy
Need
I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.
Katie Couric
Time
Good
Me
You
Dignity
People
Grace
Win
Sometimes
Manners
Think
Everything
Project
Good Manners
Handle
Trying
Just
Happened
Certain
Amount
Things
Necessarily
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin
Good
Car
Manners
Else
Good Manners
Everywhere
New
York
Same
Essential
New York
Useless
Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
Rosalind Wiseman
You
Manners
Bad
Give
Parent
Bad Manners
Excuse
Does
Being
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
Alexander McCall Smith
Building
Manners
Society
Civil
Civil Society
Building Blocks
Blocks
Basic
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
Men
First
Important
Own
Nothing
Manners
Living
Society
Everything
Sight
Seems
More
Except
Outward
Than
Human
Human Actions
Store
Form
Which
Used
Less
Actions
Grow
Set
In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.
Amor Towles
Struggle
World
Cake
Behavior
Before
Manners
Sweet
Think
Way
Finishes
Nobility
Outward
Like
Contemporary
Inward
Attractive
Contemporary World
Politeness
Surface
Off
Very
Different
Them
Century
Viewed
Expression
Different Way
Thinkers
Enlightened
Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able to communicate with all people on all levels is what's got me so far.
Ant Middleton
Life
Me
People
Communicate
Key
Take For Granted
Manners
Respectful
All People
Able
Having
Take
Polite
Got
Being
Far
Skills
Granted
Levels
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.
Danny Boyle
Life
Survival
Will
Decency
Manners
Live
Back
Consideration
More
Civility
Instinct
Powerful
Powerful Force
Force
Politeness
Than
Get
Taste
Any
Anything
Again
Need
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift
Great
You
Rest
Example
Nothing
Manners
Please
Bad
One Or Two
Bad Manners
Only
None
Offend
Flatter
Flattery
Company
Two
I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'
Julian Lennon
Manners
Pleases
Find
See
Scary
Erosion
Very
Thank
Where
Upsetting
We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.
Letitia Baldrige
Home
Respect
Nation
Manners
Others
Respect For Others
No-One
Children
Teaching
Start
Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
M. J. Rose
Buy
Good
You
Karma
Events
Manners
Other
Books
Bookstore
Good Manners
Give
Read
Go
Author
Authors
Going
Just
Interested
Plain
Even
Away
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
Margaret Mead
You
Respect
People
Manners
Way
Like
Dealing
Agree
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Time
Dignity
Lost
Revolution
Manners
Local
Restore
Morals
Unchangeable
Female
Effect
Them
Separate
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
Moshe Katsav
Manners
Society
Other
Well
Well Known
Known
Persian
Social
Them
Compete
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