Quotes about Manners
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Recently it has been decided, grudgingly, that dark skin or lameness may not be entirely one's fault, but one still ought to show the good manners to act ashamed.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
— Edmund Burke
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
— Oscar Wilde
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
— St. Basil
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
— Francis de Sales
It's nice to compliment people on what they're wearing, but don't make insincere compliments.
— Letitia Baldrige
We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of "might is right.
— Billy Graham
The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue.
— Billy Graham
It's rude to run off a guest. It's rude to wear out your welcome.
— Ted Dekker
It's rude to run off a guest. It's rude to wear out your welcome.
— Ted Dekker
You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.
— Ted Dekker