Bernard de Mandeville Quotes

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

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

It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.

Manners form the great charm of women.

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.