You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

The Thames is liquid history.

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

Don't hustle old people.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

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.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.