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Category: Manners and Ethics

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1. "Compassion is the basis of all morality."

Arthur Schopenhauer

2. "May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law."

Immanuel Kant

3. "Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

4. "Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard."

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotations about: Life and Death

5. "Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

6. "In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."

Immanuel Kant

7. "Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."

Mark Twain, "Mark Twain's Notebook"

8. "Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level."

Robert A. Heinlein

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

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Success and Fame

10. "Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

11. "Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Law and Crime

12. "The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last."

George Bernard Shaw

13. "The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Quotations about: Life and Death

14. "How happy would many people live if they cared about other people's affairs as little as about their own."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

15. "Ethics [...] are nothing but reverence for life."

Albert Schweitzer

16. "A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Woman and Man

17. "Politeness is the flower of humanity."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Human

18. "Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Anger

19. "Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."

William Somerset Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence"

Quotations about: Various

20. "Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style."

Jonathan Swift

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21. "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Life and Death

22. "Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

23. "At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."

William Somerset Maugham, "A Writer's Notebook"

24. "I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, letter to sister Cassandra

25. "I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy."

Steve Martin

26. "Apologize, v. To lay the foundation for a future offense."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Forgiveness

27. "Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."

François de La Rochefoucauld

28. "Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: God and Religion

29. "Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."

Graham Greene, "A Sort of Life"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

30. "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."

George Bernard Shaw

31. "The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire to receive even greater benefits."

François de La Rochefoucauld

32. "To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself."

Joseph Joubert

33. "I believe that the best way to prepare fore for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can."

Elbert Green Hubbard

34. "It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom."

Albert Einstein

35. "Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise."

François de La Rochefoucauld

36. "All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function."

Robert A. Heinlein

37. "Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse."

Jonathan Swift

38. "Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother."

Guy de Maupassant, "Boule de Suif"

Quotations about: Love

39. "Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."

Socrates

Quotations about: Anger

40. "Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."

Michel de Montaigne

41. "Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation - the other eight are unimportant."

Henry Miller

42. "Nothing is given so profusely as advice."

François de La Rochefoucauld

43. "Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

44. "He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

45. "Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Egoism

46. "Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

47. "Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."

Immanuel Kant

48. "If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

49. "Prejudice is an opinion without judgement."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

50. "Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

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