Quotes

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts
-Abel Stevens

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
-Benjamin Franklin

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
-Fred Astaire

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
-Margaret Walker

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

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

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis
-Alfred P Sloan Jr

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
-Cicero

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
-Horace Mann

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
-Mary Wilson Little

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

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

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
-Amy Vanderbilt

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
-E V Lucas

I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.
-Humphrey Bogart

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
-Mary Wortley Montague

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

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

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
-Benjamin Disraeli

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

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
-Lord Chesterfield

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

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

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