A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker
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
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
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
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Colley Cibber
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
Roger Moore
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Paul Theroux
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
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