Manners

(256 votes)   The greater person is one of courtesy.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(244 votes)   Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(182 votes)   Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(138 votes)   Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.

Persian Proverbs
Sayings of Persian Origin

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(127 votes)   Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(122 votes)   manners are the oil of human relations.

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(115 votes)   Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once 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 dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(115 votes)   The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(110 votes)   There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(108 votes)   Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

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(106 votes)   Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer

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(104 votes)   Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(102 votes)   He is the very pineapple of politeness!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(94 votes)   The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(91 votes)   The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

June Jordan
1939-, American Poet, Civil Rights Activist

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