Politeness smooths wrinkles.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

— Julia McNair Wright

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

— Frederic Raphael

My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every…

— Kevin Kwan

To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home,…

— Margaret Fishback

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the…

— Bill Nighy

To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which is always…

— Vikrant Parsai

The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody…

— Philip Roth

“What a nice thing to say," Mom said, standing up a little straighter, as if she'd been watered. Marlena's manners were unpracticed, but she…

— Julie Buntin

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable…

— Mark Twain

I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this:…

— Rebecca Wells

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

— Henry David Thoreau

“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”

— Jane Austen

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

— Bernard Crick

It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside…

— Greg Graffin

“In years gone by, particularly in the East and the South, ladies would attend charm school to learn how to elegantly stand, sit, dance,…

— Susan C. Young