Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
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Related Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. CLARENCE THOMAS It is not good manners to show your learning before ladies. VIKRANT PARSAI A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gende... LYNN COADY Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they c... LETITIA BALDRIGE We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified ... G. K. CHESTERTON We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified ... GILBERT K. CHESTERTON A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. H. JACKSON BROWN JR. Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that yo... P. J. O'ROURKE Learning how to communicate your ideas on paper is very important. Get a good, strong foundation in ... JOHN WARNOCK Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. JOHN LOCKE Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of ma... RICHARD WHATELY To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of ma... RICHARD WHATELY Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, repu... CHARLES SIMMONS Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. MARY WILSON LITTLE Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. MARY WILSON LITTLE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, repu... CHARLES SIMMONS Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of m... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But ev... NANCY FRIDAY Microsoft is a very good software company. They are not a distribution company or a content-creation... ADI KISHORE I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses... EDWARD BOND The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of m... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No one has ever been offended by someone with good manners and courteous behaviour. VIKRANT PARSAI Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. IZAAK WALTON We have some good opportunities on mandatory boater education. I think that is a very important thin... BRUCE DUNGAN Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way. EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way. EDWARD F. HALIFAX If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid. DAVID ECCLES Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. MARY WILSON LITTLE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I believe very strongly in kindness, in good manners, in treating people with equanimity and a sense... TOM HIDDLESTON Dignity is not demanded, it is earned with good manners & discipline life. DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors. PLUTARCH A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; bu... C. D. BROAD The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. FRED ASTAIRE The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. FRED ASTAIRE You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. LILLIAN GISH The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes. UNKNOWN Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass SIR JOHN VANBRUGH People pick bad things from bad company very quickly but good company takes a good time to gift good... UNKNOWN Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total... TONY BUZAN Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies. C A BARTOL You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. LILLIAN GISH The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly. KAHLIL GIBRAN Good manners are ageless, priceless and classless. DIANA MATHER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of c... JANE AUSTEN Where there are no women there are no good manners JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We do high-profile work, and we're a good company. We're not a fly-by-night company. AL SEARS It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good examp... YUAN T. LEE In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate a... JUNE JORDAN Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. BRYANT H. MCGILL One thing that the mobile-games business has learned in the past year is that brands without good ga... GREG BALLARD Tommy is a very good player, with good speed that can be deceiving. He's very tricky on the ice, and... JIM DAKIN Good manners and plenty of money will make my son a gentlemen. PROVERB For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law ... NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can.... J.K. ROWLING Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or for... RALPH WALDO EMERSON It's good to see public education taking more risks ... but it is a very delicate balance. Meanwhile... BRUCE FULLER Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberalit... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's a very good new business for Moses Lake. Their parent company, Columbia Ventures, is a very str... BOB FANCHER It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival. ANDREW LEVKOFF Everyone is pretty good at learning. Very few are good at doing. RICHIE NORTON Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners. AMIT KALANTRI The next year is likely to be fairly volatile based on event-driven news with regard to the lawsuit.... JOHN ZIMMERMAN The next year is likely to be fairly volatile based on event-driven news with regard to the lawsuit,... JOHN ZIMMERMAN The only difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good li... CHARLES F. KETTERING Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity. ISAAC HANSON By no means do I think that playing games online is wrong or rude. However, constantly sending reque... JOHN PATRICK HICKEY Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief t... MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. PLUTARCH UDYAMA IS BHAIRAVA – a very intense effort is needed. The sleep is very deep. Only a consistent ha... OSHO If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define... WILLIAM GLASSER One thing the company loses by not being part of J&J is not having more money for market development... JAN WALD Money and good Manners make the Gentleman. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Against Mercy we played with no intensity. It was not a good effort. We appeared sluggish, but Mercy... BOB FAULKNER Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. MARGARET WALKER The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says hist... DIONYSIUS OF HERACLEA Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog... DAVID MILNE Of all that gives politeness birth,Of all that claims to please,In motion, manners, or in mirth,The ... WILLIAM SHENSTONE Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skil... ROGER SCRUTON To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN A man in good company and debate, is a man to be feared. For a man in good company and debate, fears... DAVID TAYLOR Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is e... GEORGE SAVILE Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is e... HENRY S. COMMAGER Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires
change. Education is e... HENRY STEELE COMMAGER As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of... EDWARD BELLAMY Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have ... EMILY POST Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have go... EMILY POST Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects b... BENJAMIN BANNEKER Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects ba... BENJAMIN BANNEKER It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions... LYNNE TRUSS Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth a... LEVI WOODBURY It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education,... JOHN PAUL JONES That was a good win against a very good ball club. The key thing is they are learning how to win. JAMIE PINKERTON
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JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ... JANE AUSTEN I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan... JANE AUSTEN I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It... JANE AUSTEN What are men to rocks and mountains? JANE AUSTEN Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti... JANE AUSTEN One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at... JANE AUSTEN It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before JANE AUSTEN Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. JANE AUSTEN In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the se... JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. JANE AUSTEN We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our me... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead o... JANE AUSTEN When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to... JANE AUSTEN The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwel... JANE AUSTEN Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always ... JANE AUSTEN I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few d... JANE AUSTEN It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. JANE AUSTEN She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho... JANE AUSTEN One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fa... JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taug... JANE AUSTEN The distance is nothing when one has a motive. JANE AUSTEN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. JANE AUSTEN A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of JANE AUSTEN My good opinion once lost is lost forever. JANE AUSTEN Till this moment I never knew myself. 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JANE AUSTEN Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m... JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in ... JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really... JANE AUSTEN What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. JANE AUSTEN There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. JANE AUSTEN There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. JANE AUSTEN Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. JANE AUSTEN A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sp... JANE AUSTEN The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without... JANE AUSTEN It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t... JANE AUSTEN She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa... JANE AUSTEN Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo... JANE AUSTEN There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al... JANE AUSTEN Beware how you give your heart. JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ... JANE AUSTEN Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect... JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth... JANE AUSTEN Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas... 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JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. JANE AUSTEN My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ... JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ... JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu... JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno... JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in... 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