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Manners Quotes

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity Picture Quote #1

I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day Picture Quote #1

My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them Picture Quote #1

My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners Picture Quote #1

Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners Picture Quote #1

Teaching creativity to your child isn’t like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person’s precepts about elbows on the table Picture Quote #1

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Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn’t, you’ll be too hammered to remember Picture Quote #1

Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you’re standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair’s effect, or a sculpture’s. You’re part of someone’s view, you’re part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it’s a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can Picture Quote #1

A gentleman doesn’t have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own Picture Quote #1

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease... by turning any answer into another question Picture Quote #1

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted Picture Quote #1

Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you Picture Quote #1

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You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It’s because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he’ll be behaving like that to you Picture Quote #1

I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don’t like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance Picture Quote #1

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges Picture Quote #1

La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don’t learn right from wrong early on, or if you don’t learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later Picture Quote #1

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them Picture Quote #1

Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations Picture Quote #1

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The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties Picture Quote #1

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners Picture Quote #1

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else Picture Quote #1

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette? Picture Quote #1

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business Picture Quote #1

Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It’s not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman’s ability to make everyone... feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness Picture Quote #1

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Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of the atmosphere, of the solid crust of the earth, of water, and of their influence upon the life of plants and animals, was linked to that discovery. The successful pursuit of innumerable trades and manufactures, the profitable separation of metals from their ores, also stand in the closest connection therewith Picture Quote #1

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses Picture Quote #1

Money doesn’t mean that you are educated, have manners, class or even have good hygiene. All it means is... you have money! Picture Quote #1

It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one’s duty and understand one’s fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed Picture Quote #1

Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities Picture Quote #1

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained Picture Quote #1

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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity (Manners Quotes) I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day (Manners Quotes) My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them (Manners Quotes) My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners (Manners Quotes) Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners (Manners Quotes) Teaching creativity to your child isn’t like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person’s precepts about elbows on the table (Manners Quotes) Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn’t, you’ll be too hammered to remember (Manners Quotes) Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you’re standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair’s effect, or a sculpture’s. You’re part of someone’s view, you’re part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it’s a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can (Manners Quotes) A gentleman doesn’t have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own (Manners Quotes) Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease... by turning any answer into another question (Manners Quotes) I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted (Manners Quotes) Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you (Manners Quotes) You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It’s because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he’ll be behaving like that to you (Manners Quotes) I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don’t like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance (Manners Quotes) One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges (Manners Quotes) La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don’t learn right from wrong early on, or if you don’t learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later (Manners Quotes) Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them (Manners Quotes) Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations (Manners Quotes) The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties (Manners Quotes) There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners (Manners Quotes) Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else (Manners Quotes) As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette? (Manners Quotes) To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business (Manners Quotes) Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It’s not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman’s ability to make everyone... feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness (Manners Quotes) Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of the atmosphere, of the solid crust of the earth, of water, and of their influence upon the life of plants and animals, was linked to that discovery. The successful pursuit of innumerable trades and manufactures, the profitable separation of metals from their ores, also stand in the closest connection therewith (Manners Quotes) Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses (Manners Quotes) Money doesn’t mean that you are educated, have manners, class or even have good hygiene. All it means is... you have money! (Manners Quotes) It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one’s duty and understand one’s fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed (Manners Quotes) Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities (Manners Quotes) For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained (Manners Quotes)

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