The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.
Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
Manners are the ornament of action.
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement. . . Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.
Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!