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


Lillian Gish

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You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
LILLIAN GISH Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
BRYANT H. MCGILL Dignity is not demanded, it is earned with good manners & discipline life.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects b...
BENJAMIN BANNEKER Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects ba...
BENJAMIN BANNEKER I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.
LETITIA BALDRIGE You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
RITA MAE BROWN The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
WENDELL L. WILLKIE The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
WENDELL WILLKIE The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones
WENDELL L. WILLKIE Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.
ANDREW LEVKOFF Bad manners make a journalist.
OSCAR WILDE I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But ev...
NANCY FRIDAY Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of m...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
EVELYN WAUGH We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified ...
G. K. CHESTERTON We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified ...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of m...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's h...
KATIE COURIC You can learn good manners from those who don’t have any.
VIKRANT PARSAI The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
PATRICK KAVANAGH There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.
LETITIA BALDRIGE You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy...
ROBERT MACNEIL Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
ISAAC HANSON Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
BENNETT CERF War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst ...
GRAYDON CARTER Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
MARGARET WALKER Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
ROSALIND WISEMAN Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very n...
JANE AUSTEN Beware of a man with manners.
EUDORA WELTY No one has ever been offended by someone with good manners and courteous behaviour.
VIKRANT PARSAI An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have ...
EMILY POST Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have go...
EMILY POST I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
OLIVIA CULPO You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
RITA MAE BROWN You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
RITA MAE BROWN For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good man...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Better good manners than good looks.
PROVERB They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their ...
ANDREA YATES A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN Evil communications corrupt good manners.
CHARLES DICKENS Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or for...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions...
LYNNE TRUSS Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou...
JENNIFER BROWN For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Fuck your manners."

"You don't have to settle for just my manners.
NENIA CAMPBELL Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
MARGARET WALKER Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
BENNETT CERF Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
BENNETT CERF Discipline and manners. Discipline comes in training, and they get rewarded for doing good.
GARY LASHINSKY Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
ALEXANDER POPE Open Doors For Others And Doors Will Open For You" Mama T
TERESA MAMA T. SCHIMANDLE Good manners is the fabric that holds the community together.
DAVID ESABWA It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this ...
GEOFF DYER Money and good Manners make the Gentleman.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Good manners are ageless, priceless and classless.
DIANA MATHER An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gende...
LYNN COADY You don't have to have money and privilege to have good manners.
MARIBETH EVANS Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
MARY WILSON LITTLE Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU This lets our engineers develop a performance tyre with manners.
BOB TOTH It is not good manners to show your learning before ladies.
VIKRANT PARSAI In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don&#...
BILL NIGHY I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or wh...
ADRIANA LIMA Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
MOSHE KATSAV This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignoranc...
BRYAN CRANSTON Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Good manners are made up of letting people tell you what you already know.
VIKRANT PARSAI The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
BIBLE Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
BIBLE Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
PAUL THEROUX A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
LORD CHESTERFIELD It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're th...
JERRY HALL That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful tha...
DANNY BOYLE You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day."
For s...
TERRY PRATCHETT The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.
UNKNOWN Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
C A BARTOL It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good m...
KATE REARDON Hollywood was a silver-nitrate finishing school for a whole generation with a faculty that included ...
C. DAVID HEYMANN Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.
JASON CHAMBERLAIN Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir...
DARIN STRAUSS I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners
HIROKO SAKAI A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others...
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