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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. -- Horace Mann
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. -- Emily Post
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. -- Margaret Walker
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. -- Laurence Sterne
Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents. -- Thomas Lickona
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. -- Emily Post
Manners make often fortunes. -- John Ray
Manners are the ornament of action. -- Samuel Smiles
Manners. Manners will get you through anything. -- Ronan Farrow
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned. -- Auliq Ice
Manners without sincerity, is called polite society -- Josh Stern
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. -- Honore de Balzac
Manners are love in a cool climate. -- Quentin Crisp
Manners form the great charm of women. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Manners are the happy ways of doing things. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people. -- Molly Ivins
Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to. -- Lori Foster
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. -- Lord Chesterfield
Honor has to say "please" and "thank you." Manners are really important. -- Jessica Alba
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man. -- Richard Whately
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. -- Alexander Pope
Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. -- Lynne Truss
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. -- Alexander Pope
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly ... -- Margaret Mead
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. -- Evelyn Waugh
Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends.... -- George Bernard Shaw
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine. -- Quentin Crisp
Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close. -- Judith Martin
Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question. -- Tina Brown
It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight. -- Judith Martin
TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes. -- David Duchovny
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. -- Emily Post
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. -- Sydney Smith
If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners. -- Abigail Adams
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic. -- Judith Martin
Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations. -- Emily Post
Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know. -- Bono
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else. -- Freya Stark
Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person. -- Usain Bolt
If "Manners maketh man," as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they say."(Englishman in New York) -- Sting
It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit. -- Bette Midler
Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse? -- John Barth
Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting. -- Judith Martin
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. -- Jack Kerouac
The greater the controversy, the more you need manners. -- Judith Martin
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. -- Alfred P. Sloan
The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. -- Rita Mae Brown
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. -- Clarence Thomas
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. -- Benjamin Franklin
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. -- Bennett Cerf
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. -- Bryant H. McGill
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. -- Fred Astaire
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. -- Loretta Young
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. -- George Mikes
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. -- Lillian Gish
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. -- Lord Chesterfield
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. -- Benjamin Banneker
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. -- Thomas Hardy
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. -- Arthur Ashe
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved. -- Russell Brand
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. -- Margaret Mead
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. -- Amy Vanderbilt
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. -- John Milton
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. -- Aleister Crowley
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. -- Jonathan Swift
Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?' -- Cy Twombly
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
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. -- Baltasar Gracian
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures. -- Judith Martin
I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time. -- Katie Couric
I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations. -- Madonna Ciccone
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards. -- Graydon Carter
Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most. -- Roman Coppola
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. -- Robert Rainy
Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. -- David Rakoff
A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing! -- Selena Gomez
What times! What manners! -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Morals are three-quarters manners. -- Felix Frankfurter
Teach that asshole some manners. -- Jamie McGuire
Bad manners make a journalist. -- Oscar Wilde
Forget love. Try good manners. -- Rebecca Wells
Ceremonies are the outworks of manners. -- Lord Chesterfield
Political correctness is tyranny with manners. -- Charlton Heston
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. -- Edward Everett
Civility is not simply about manners. -- Jim Leach
Beware of a man with manners. -- Eudora Welty
Good manners require space and time. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Teach a child good manners during babyhood. -- Nachman of Breslov
Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners. -- Patricia Briggs
Good manners can render even virtue tolerable. -- Mason Cooley
The best manners are stained by haughtiness. -- Claudius Claudianus
Untimely conduct is the discord of manners. -- Louise Colet
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a certain physiognomy in manners. -- Joseph Cook
What once were vices are manners now. -- Seneca the Younger
Dressing well is an expression of manners. -- Tom Ford
Good manners are a sign of strength. -- Dick Francis
You lose your manners when you're poor. -- Lillian Hellman
Clothes and manners do not make the... -- Arthur Ashe
There is no nobility with bad manners. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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