Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.