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Category: Manners and Ethics

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1. "Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

2. "Our senses are the landing ports of our spiritual enemies."

George Whitefield

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

3. "There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."

Francis Herbert Bradley

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

4. "Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby?"

Ray Bradbury

Quotations about: Various

5. "Children are ambassadors from another dimension and should be treated with diplomatic courtesy."

Irving Fiske

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

6. "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."

Cyril Connolly

Quotations about: Youth and Age

7. "Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough. (2) Too much."

Ann Landers

8. "Civilized life begins with a boiled egg sitting upright in an egg cup."

Judith Martin (Miss Manners)

9. "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

Abraham Lincoln

10. "Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said."

Mel Brooks

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

11. "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy."

Edwin W. Edwards

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

12. "Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

Thomas Fuller

Quotations about: Good and Evil

13. "The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink."

Fran Lebowitz

Quotations about: Science and Technology

14. "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."

Anon.

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

15. "Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."

Edith Sitwell, "The Last Years of a Rebel"

16. "The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."

Ayn Rand

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness -:- Life and Death

17. "A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

Jack London

Quotations about: Various

18. "The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."

gen. Omar Bradley

Quotations about: Peace and War -:- Sin and Conscience

19. "Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect."

Sydney Smith, "Sermons"

20. "Be kind to unkind people; they probably need it the most."

Ashleigh Brilliant

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21. "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."

Evelyn Waugh

Quotations about: Time and Passing

22. "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."

Roger Federer

23. "Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."

Eric Hoffer

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

24. "It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."

Beatrice Stella Campbell (Mrs Patrick Campbell)

25. "A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip."

Caskie Stinnett

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

26. "On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners."

George Mikes

Quotations about: History and Nations

27. "A man is truly ethical only when [...] he tears no leaf from a tree, plucks no flower, and takes care to crush no insects."

Albert Schweitzer, "Philosophy of Civilization"

Quotations about: Human

28. "Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't."

Earl Wilson

29. "A kind word never broke anyone's mouth."

Irish proverb

30. "A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is the statement of an agreeable untruth."

Sir John Alexander Macdonald

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

31. "Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice."

Anon.

32. "I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."

George Bernard Shaw, "The Apple Cart"

33. "People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise."

William Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage"

34. "It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Notebooks"

35. "Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."

Winston Churchill

36. "Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "Heretics"

Quotations about: Anger

37. "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."

Will Rogers, "Illiterate Digest"

Quotations about: Egoism

38. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Albert Camus, "Notebooks"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Question and Problem

39. "The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."

Bertrand Russell, "Sceptical Essays"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

40. "He who has no shame has no conscience."

English proverb

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

41. "All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."

Cyril Connolly, "Enemies of Promise"

42. "This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Mere Christianity"

Quotations about: Human

43. "What is popular is not always right; what is right is not always popular."

Anon.

44. "Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."

George Eliot, "Daniel Deronda"

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

45. "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

46. "I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies hands - after all, one must start somewhere."

Sacha Guitry

47. "Prejudice is the child of ignorance."

William Hazlitt

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

48. "We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Egoism

49. "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."

Josh Billings

50. "The death of dogma is the birth of morality."

Immanuel Kant

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