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If the motto of the old Oxford college, "Manners makyth man," were true, one would often be sorry for the Briton. But his manners do not make him; they mar him. His goods are all absent from the shop window; he is not a man of the world in the wider meaning of that expression.
She began to take the girl out with her to the houses of various "great" personages friends whom she knew well and who made an intimate little social circle of their own "old-fashioned" people certainly, but happily free from the sort of suppressed rowdyism which distinguishes the "nouveaux riches" of the present day, people who adhered rigidly to almost obsolete notions of honour and dignity, who lived simply and well within their means, who spoke reverently of things religious and believed in the old adage "Manners makyth the man."
"No churl," returned Ambrose, "if manners makyth man, as we saw at Winchester." "Then what do they make of that cowardly clown, his cousin?" Ambrose laughed, but said, "Prove we our gentle blood at least by not brawling with the fellow. Master Headley will soon teach him to know his place." "That will matter nought to us. To-morrow shall we be with our uncle Hal.
So we take leave of this master builder and munificent bishop, whose motto "Manners makyth man" is known the world over. The inscription on his tomb tells us of his works, but Wykeham needs no inscription so long as the stones of the Cathedral hold together, and his two fair colleges raise their buttressed walls beside the waters of the Isis and the Itchen.
The school was founded by Wykeham in 1387 for "seventy poor scholars, clerks, to live college wise and study grammar," and its roll contains a goodly proportion of England's great men. Here students were taught rather more than is stated above, and "Manners Makyth Man" became the watchword of the foundation.
You can't I mean you and I can't appreciate them properly." "The Mackenzie looks a fool." "He is a great friend of mine. You must not be rude. Manners makyth man. According to that, you are not always a man when you're with me." He breathed deeply. "There's something about you " "Now you're blaming me, and that's not gallant." "You think I'm not fit to breathe the same air with you, don't you?"
Every defect that I had noted in the modern young woman is not less notable in the modern young man. Briefly, he is a boor. If it is true that 'manners makyth man, one doubts whether the British race can be perpetuated.
This puzzled us, and I am not sure that we took any trouble to discriminate Miss Plinlimmon's share in these compositions from that of their signatories. Manners makyth man"; and to this day I associate General Paoli with an apostrophe "O Corsica!
I will vote for it when women have left off making a noise in the reading-room of the British Museum, when they leave off wearing high head-dresses in the pit of a theatre and when I have seen as many as twelve women in all catch hold of the strap or bar on getting into an omnibus. Manners Makyth Man Yes, but they make woman still more. Women and Religion
"Perhaps he was a shade more civil than usual," observed Marcus, dryly, "but his manners certainly want mending. Could you not illuminate that motto, Livy, 'Manners makyth man? and we would frame it, and give it him as a Christmas present." But Olivia could not be induced to see the joke; Mr. Gaythorne was still an old dear, and the perfume of his flowers was sweet to her.
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