Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.
If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its sensibility to the extent of showing some figures much as Molière, for instance, did, as absurd or detestable.
Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
What once were vices are manners now.
. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed. . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. . . . We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can you explain the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year
Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.
Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.
And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.