| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. | | Robert A. Heinlein | | | For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained | | Niccolo Machiavelli | | | Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass | | Sir John Vanbrugh | | | | | He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence | | Samuel Johnson | | | I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. | | Albert Einstein | | | Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit | | William Cowper | | | Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. | | Evelyn Waugh | | | Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends. | | George Bernard Shaw | | | Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. | | Edmund Burke | | | | | Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | | | | | | | | There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to | | Jane Austen | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 17 of 17 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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