#manners

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#morality #morals #respect #respect

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#manners #hurt

Being classy is my teenage rebellion. ↗

— Rebecca McKinsey

#convention #fashion #manners #rebellion #teenagers

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#both #manners #more #myth #reality

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#known #manners #other #persian #social

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people. ↗

— William John Wills

#arts #confined #deep #differently #dispositions

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#effect #female #local #lost #manners

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. ↗

— Jane Austen

#behavior #employment #enjoyment #manners #propriety

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#corrupted #liberty #manners #people #preserved

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then. ↗

— Michael Symon

#around #back #day #dinner #down