Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
?Sarah Orne Jewett
Good manners have much to do with
emotions. To make them ring true, one must
feel them, not merely exhibit them.
?Amy Vanderbilt
There can be no defense
like elaborate courtesy.
?E V Lucas
At a dinner party one should eat
wisely but not too well, and
talk well but not too wisely.
?W Somerset Maugham
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
?Mary Wortley Montague
Politeness is the art of choosing
among one's real thoughts.
?Abel Stevens
The hardest job kids face today is learning
good manners without seeing any.
?Fred Astaire
You can't be truly rude until you
understand good manners.
?Rita Mae Brown
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 society of women is the
element of good manners.
?Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Etiquette is behaving yourself a little
better than is absolutely essential.
?Will Cuppy
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
?Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
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
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think
of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
?Mark Twain
Politeness is only one half good manners
and the other half good lying.
?Mary Wilson Little
Friends and good manners will carry
you where money won't go.
?Margaret Walker
