Mannered Quotes

A common misperception of me is...that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I`m pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It`s the parts that you play I guess. I don`t mind it. I`m not a tough guy. I`d like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.

(on James Mason) He was a punctilious man, beautifully mannered, quiet, generous and amusing. I never heard him say a vicious or bitter thing about anything or anyone.

All of her kids were great. They were well-behaved, very well-mannered.

Joe was a lovely well-mannered boy and he`s going to be greatly missed by all his teachers, his friends and his fellow pupils at St Gabriel`s High School.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

There were times when I would finish writing a sequence and I would see the face of my very well-mannered, deeply Presbyterian mother staring back at me from my imagination, looking at me with her lips pursed like, `Douglas, what do you think you`re doing?` ... But if you`re tackling a figure like Sade, you have a moral obligation to be true to his spirit.

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.