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Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. -- Bryant H. McGill
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. -- Lillian Gish
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. -- Benjamin Banneker
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners. -- Bryan Cranston
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. -- Henry James
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. -- Walt Whitman
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. -- Jonathan Swift
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye. -- David Ogilvy
Bad manners make a journalist. -- Oscar Wilde
There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes. -- Steven Brust
I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners. -- Keith Richards
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners -- Barbara Kingsolver
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite. -- Judith Viorst
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. -- Baltasar Gracian
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot... -- Robert A. Heinlein
Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre. -- Aldous Huxley
What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. -- Lucinda Williams
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another. -- George Bernard Shaw
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. -- Miller Williams
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls. -- George Bernard Shaw
Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners. -- Rosalind Wiseman
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. -- Patrick Kavanagh
War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale! -- Graydon Carter
I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke. -- Bill Nighy
There is no nobility with bad manners. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners. -- Patricia Briggs
Bad manners does not mean they make bad company. -- Kelly R. Michaels
Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere. -- Elvis Costello
Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners. -- Margaret Millar
Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners -- Hiroko Sakai
That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. -- Wendell Willkie
Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners. -- Toks Olagundoye
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength. -- Gertrude Atherton
Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools. -- Charlaine Harris
My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners. -- Rumi
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one. -- Henry David Thoreau
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. -- Raymond Chandler
Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs. -- Myrtle Reed
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. -- Socrates
Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home. -- George Santayana
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt. -- Ilona Andrews
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. -- Robert A. Heinlein
It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself...all of which I've earned a living doing. -- Audrey Hepburn
By no means do I think that playing games online is wrong or rude. However, constantly sending requests is an act of bad manners as well as being very annoying to the one receiving them. -- John Patrick Hickey

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