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