Manners Quotes

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
- Mark Twain

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain

The society of women is the element of good manners.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
- Will Cuppy

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

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
- Sarah Orne Jewett

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
- Rita Mae Brown

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
- Mary Wortley Montague