Manners quotes

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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

- Lord Chesterfield

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- Lord Chesterfield

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

- Horace Mann

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

- Lord Chesterfield

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

- Lord Chesterfield

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

- Lord Chesterfield

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

- Philip Pullman

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

- Lord Chesterfield

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

- Lord Chesterfield

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

- Philip Stanhope

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

- Lord Chesterfield

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

- Lord Chesterfield

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

- Emily Post

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

- Lord Chesterfield

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

- Lord Chesterfield

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

- Rita Mae Brown

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

- Alfred P. Sloan

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

- Lord Chesterfield

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

- Lord Chesterfield

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

- Lord Chesterfield

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

- Lord Chesterfield

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

- Lord Chesterfield

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

- Lord Chesterfield

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

- Lord Chesterfield

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

- Lord Chesterfield

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

- Lord Chesterfield

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.

- Philip Stanhope

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

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

- Lord Chesterfield