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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
Earl of ChesterfieldManners - 2
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
CiceroManners - 3
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Oliver GoldsmithManners - 4
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.
David HumeManners - 5
Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
Walter RaleighManners - 7
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver GoldsmithManners - 8
Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
Earl of ChesterfieldManners - 9
Civility costs nothing.
Manners - 10
Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
ConfuciusManners - 11
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo EmersonManners - 12
He is the very pineapple of politeness!
Richard Brinsley SheridanManners - 13
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
James Russell LowellManners - 14
If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
Alexander MaclarenManners - 15
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas JeffersonManners -
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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Wyndham LewisManners - 17
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
William ShakespeareManners - 18
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Evelyn WaughManners - 19
Manners are happy ways of doing things.
Manners - 20
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Sydney SmithManners - 21
Manners are love in a cool climate.
Quentin CrispManners - 22
Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TennysonManners - 23
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
Edmund BurkeManners - 24
Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love --now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows.
Ralph Waldo EmersonManners - 25
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honoré de BalzacManners
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