“There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.” IfsThinkingMenWorldWayShouldHeartMayPersonsDoeSpiritUnderstandingUnitedGraceParticularHe ManSonThousandCreaturesEqualPerfectionRelationFortuneMannersBelongingCountyEldestEldest Son Book:Jane Austen's correspondence and letters: The complete and definitive edition Source: Jane Austen's correspondence and letters: The complete and definitive edition
“We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.” MenWayWellsLanguageNumbersAttentionGreaterWiseFashionHe ManOughtDrawsDressesEvery ManMannersBehaveShockAffectedExcessConformHaste Author:Moliere
“Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.” MenWellsEndsUnderstandingTakenFailingHe ManDutySolitudeSatisfactionFlyingManners Author:Edmund Burke
“That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.” MenSoulHe ManIntellectMannersImprovingRefinementPurifying Author:Hosea Ballou
“The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.” MenHe ManMannersEaseGentlemanVulgarVulgarity Author:Lord Chesterfield
“Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.” MenDifferentCountryHe ManEvery ManLocalsMannersConformDispositionCourtesyCivilityBreedingAccommodateGood Breeding Author:Lord Chesterfield
“If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.” IfsMenSaidHe ManHeroMannersAdages Author:Sting