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When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude. — Theodore Dalrymple
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners. — Colley Cibber
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy.… — Norman Tebbit
Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing… — P.J. O'Rourke
Good manners are a sign of strength. — Dick Francis
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life… — June Jordan
Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is. — P.J. O'Rourke
Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things. — P.J. O'Rourke
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both. — Lord Chesterfield
If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells… — Oswald Chambers
When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel… — Stephen Chbosky
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline… — Antonio Gramsci
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion -… — Henry Steele Commager
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children… — June Jordan
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children… — Sathya Sai Baba
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often… — C. D. Broad
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Good manners do more for a man that good looks. — E. W. Howe
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts… — Alberto Manguel
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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… — Katie Couric
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices. — Ann Landers
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. — Robert MacNeil

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