A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.” — Barbara Cameron Copy Share Image
When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. — Amy Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor… — Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm… — Murdoc Niccals Copy Share Image
It doesn't change the way I am, but I do totally understand how you're looked at as a footballer, especially by children.… — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“I should add, however, by way of justification of French politeness, that our fellow-countrymen are, when travelling, models of good manners in… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
“The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. — Alfred Agache Copy Share Image
“The Purpose of Friendship to Me is Having One to Complement Not One to Compete with!” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
“ASK YOURSELF: Are you presenting yourself in the best of all lights, online and off, and demonstrating the dignity of good manners?… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Your gold is your religion , your adornment is your moral attitude , and your wealth is your good manners .” — Aidh bin Abdullah Al-Qarni Copy Share Image
“Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. — Bobby Bowden Copy Share Image
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence and… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
