| Author |
Quotes |
| Abel Stevens | Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. |
| Alfred P Sloan Jr | Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis |
| Amy Vanderbilt | Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. |
| Cicero | A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. |
| E V Lucas | There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. |
| Emily Post | 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. |
| Fred Astaire | The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. |
| Horace Mann | Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. |
| Humphrey Bogart | I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. |
| Lord Chesterfield | A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. |
| Margaret Walker | Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. |
| Mary Wilson Little | Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. |
| Mary Wortley Montague | Civility costs nothing and buys everything. |
| Rita Mae Brown | You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. |
| Voltaire | To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. |
| Will Cuppy | Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. |
| John Milton | If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. |
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