#manners

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#drunk #facts #fighting #ignorant #instincts

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. ↗

— Richard Whately

#always #good #make #manners #perfection

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man. ↗

— Richard Whately

#ever #given #greatest #influence #man

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#bad #good #good manners #manners #ones

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#educated #great #live #manners #men

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. ↗

— Loretta Young

#correct #dress #good #good manners #manners

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#ettiquette #manners #sympathy #death

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#insincerity #manners #friendship

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#manners #pooh #tigger #humor

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#absolutely #any #biggest #did #example