Quotes about Manners
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.
— Maya Angelou
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
— Charles Dickens
Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.
— Gordon Hinckley
The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
— Henry David Thoreau
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
— Zig Ziglar
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
— Billy Graham
Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.
— William Hazlitt
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.
— Hilaire Belloc
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
— Mark Twain
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
— Mark Twain