I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.
I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.
And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained. [It. , Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi. ]
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
Good manners are never passé.
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.
To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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.
Beware of a man with manners.
Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
What times! What manners!
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.