There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
Profound Bad Manners quotations
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it.
What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
Boxing is entertainment, so to be successful a fighter must not only win but he must win in an exciting manner. He must throw punches with bad intentions.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Evil communication corrupts good manners.
I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial and often false manner. So rather than let them make me feel bad, I express my annoyance. It's my way of trying to strike a blow for logic and rationality.
There is no nobility with bad manners.
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.
The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me.
I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice;
a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.
Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with Normal Life are bullshit artists of the highest degree, looking to excuse their antisocial tendencies and bad manners away with a flourish of vocabulary and the semantic waving of hands.
As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners.
For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
It is bad when one thing becomes two.
One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.
I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.
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.
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.
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?
I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners.
They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.
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.