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
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
Richard Whately
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
Amy Vanderbilt
I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.
Dusty Springfield
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell L. Willkie
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
George Bernard Shaw
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Rita Mae Brown
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
William Shakespeare
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
Edmund Burke
The society of women is the element of good manners.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Manners maketh man.
William of Wykeham
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Algernon Sidney
The idea of having pride, the idea of manners, I think is very, very important. There's just too little of it in the world and I think there are certain dignities in life to which we should all aspire.
Bill Bixby
You don't have to have money and privilege to have good manners.
Maribeth Evans
Manners, -- The final and perfect flower of noble character.
William Forrest Winter
Everywhere I know of, people complain about the decline in manners.
Deborah Durham
Parents are realizing that manners could become extinct, and they have to get on the ball and do something about it, ... Manners are not in the genes; they are not inherited. They must be taught and learned.
David Boyd
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
Sir John Vanbrugh
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
Stanley Walker
Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.
Art Spander
Manners are how you show how you're going to relate to someone else.
Deborah Durham
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Bennett Cerf
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
Lawrence Sterne
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Evelyn Waugh
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
I appreciate the fact that he's elegant and he's polite and has very good manners all things that gay men like but when they read that he gave over $200,000 to Tom DeLay to help elect Republicans, that's an affront.
Christopher Lynn
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
George Mikes
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith
Discipline and manners. Discipline comes in training, and they get rewarded for doing good.
Gary Lashinsky
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Alfred P. Sloan
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
Stephen Bayley
He's very well-mannered. I have to say his manners are not skin deep. He was well mannered and helpful through a lot of stress. That is when you separate the men from the boys.
Richard Loncraine
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
Og Mandino
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
Sir Thomas More
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
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.
Alfred E. Smith
Beware of a man with manners.
Eudora Welty
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