The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Edmund Burke

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
Henry Walter Bates

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Mercy Otis Warren

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
Jason Alexander

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
George Saintsbury

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
Gerald F. Lieberman

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
Adelbert von Chamisso

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Randall Jarrell

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
Richard Whately

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
Oliver Hudson

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
Richard V. Allen

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
Loretta Young

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Helen Rowland

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
Mary Wortley Montagu

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.
John McGahern

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
Lillian Gish