manners 
manners
n.
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed, As by his manners.
Mr Wickham isblessedwith suchhappymanners asmay ensure his making friendsöwhether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.
Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. See Milton 580:93.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, council, governments, Myself not least, but honoured of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windyTroy. I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.
She was neither clear-sighted nor accurate; and in her attempts to describe morals, manners, and even facts, was unable to avoid the pitfalls of exaggeration.
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because, as a nation, we don't dress well and we've no manners.
Golf is in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotesself-restraint and affordsa chanceto play the man and act the gentleman.
God, whoat sundry times and indiversmannersspake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Leave off first for manners'sake; and be not unsatiable, lest thou offend.
For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
'Tis certain we have but very imperfect accounts of the manners and religion of these people; this part of the world being seldomvisited,but bymerchants, whomind little but their own affairs; or travellers, who make too short a stay to be able to report anything exactly of their own knowledge.
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Manners makyth man.
They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
Grannie remarked that I might have the spirit of an Australian but I had by no means the manners of a lady.
[Chaucer] must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his CanterburyTales the various manners and humours of the whole English nation in his age.
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness.We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
There's reason good, that you good laws should make: Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.
Much music marreth men's manners.
'Twonations; betweenwhomthere isnointercourseand no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed bya different breeding, are fed by a different 276 food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.' 'You speak ofö'said Egremont, hesitatingly.'THE RICH ANDTHE POOR.'
Breakfast is the one meal at which it is perfectly good manners to read the paper.
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.
Then let Ausonia, skilled in every art To soften manners, but corrupt the heart, Pour her exotic follies o'er the town, To sanctionVice, and hunt Decorum down.
We said to the Chinese,'You have behaved very ill; we have had to teach you better manners; it has cost us something to do it, but we will send our bill in, and you must pay our charges.' That was done, and they have certainly profited by the lesson. They have become free traders too.
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