Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.
Teach a child good manners during babyhood.
People who stare deserve the looks they get.
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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.
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.
He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.
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.
The best manners are stained by haughtiness.
Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.
For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.
I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.
Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.