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Manners Quotes
On etiquette, civility, and the character behind it.
Good manners are often tested not by comfortable company but by rude ones, and several quotes here explore that patience. Others look at manners as a marker of culture and era, sitting alongside our Good Manners collection for a closer focus on courtesy.
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.
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You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
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Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
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