Popular Quotes

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

- English proverb

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

- Oliver Herford

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

- Samuel Johnson

The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

- Fran Lebowitz

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

- Honori de Balzac

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

- Sydney Smith

If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

- J. K. Galbraith

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

- Jean de la Bruyere

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

- James Russell Lowell

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

- Samuel Johnson

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

- Mrs. Patrick Campbell

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

- Goethe

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

- Mark Twain

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

- Will Cuppy

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.

- Tennessee Williams

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

- Eric Hoffer

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

- Albert Guirard

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

- Oscar Wilde

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake, sweet, but not nourishing.

- Nellie McClung

(A gentleman) is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

- Fred Allen

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

- William Lyon Phelps

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

- Livy

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

- Solomon ibn Gabirol

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.

- Emily Post