Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ogilvy

I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

Dick Francis

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Cillian Murphy

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Amy Vanderbilt

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Billy Sunday

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Colley Cibber

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Jeff Garlin

If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Ayn Rand

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Lao Tzu

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Corrie Ten Boom

There is explosive power in virtue.

William Shakespeare

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

Juvenal

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

William Shakespeare

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

Deborah Durham

Manners are how you show how you're going to relate to someone else.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greater person is one of courtesy.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

There is no nobility with bad manners.

William Gilbert

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

Darren Criss

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Charles Dickens

Oh! I know their tricks and their manners.

Andrea Yates

They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their social manners,

Duke of Wellington

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.