We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Bad Manners Quotes from Benjamin Banneker, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Lillian Gish, Flannery O’Connor. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
You can get through life with bad manners, but it’s easier with good manners.
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
You can get through life with bad manners, but it’s easier with good manners.
I don’t accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.
I don’t ever knock anybody; that’s bad manners.
I don’t accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
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!
My grandmother used to teach me that it’s bad manners to invite yourself to somebody’s house.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one’s private soul.
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.
There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
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.
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!
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.
Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
I get more disgusted with men all the time – particularly traveling Americans. They start out on a trip to Europe and never bother to pack a dinner jacket. This is not only stupid – it’s bad manners.
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.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one’s private soul.
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
My grandmother used to teach me that it’s bad manners to invite yourself to somebody’s house.
