The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Air and manners are more expressive than words.
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
Good manners are a part of good morals.
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies of ostentatious greatness. But when they lost even the semblance of those virtues which were derived from their ancient freedom, the simplicity of Roman manners was insensibly corrupted by the stately affectation of the courts of Asia.
Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.
Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.
Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated.
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.
To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.
People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.
My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners.