A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin

A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
Philip Pullman

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
Marguerite Gardiner

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
William John Wills

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
Alfred E. Smith

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Alfred P. Sloan

Beware of a man with manners.
Eudora Welty

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Arthur Ashe

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
Robert Grosseteste

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Simone Weil

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Robert Rainy

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker