Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Bryant H. McGill

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
Amy Vanderbilt

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Jonathan Swift

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Bennett Cerf

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Joseph Joubert

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
William Gilbert

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
Anthony Trollope

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Henry Fielding

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
Zebulon Pike

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
Margaret Mead

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
James Russell Lowell

I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!!
Doug Davidson

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
Og Mandino

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.
Katie Couric

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Evelyn Waugh

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
Thomas Malthus

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Enid Bagnold