#bad manners

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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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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Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

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