Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Colley Cibber

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

David Ogilvy

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

Amy Vanderbilt

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

Lillian Gish

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Edmund Burke

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Edmund Burke

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

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.

Juvenal

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Juvenal

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

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.

Duke of Wellington

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

Darren Criss

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Cassandra Clare

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

Jean de la Bruyere

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.