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Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. — Bryant H. McGill
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. — Mignon McLaughlin
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… — Roger Moore
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice… — Bill Nighy
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
I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to… — Sylvester Stallone
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… — Jonathan Swift
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. — Paul Theroux
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. — Clarence Thomas
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. — Margaret Walker
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. — Wendell Willkie
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. — Loretta Young
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… — Joan Didion
Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere. — Elvis Costello
Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners. — Tom Robbins
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for… — George Bernard Shaw
It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was… — Jean Ferris
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners,… — John Steinbeck
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or… — Laura Esquivel
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. — Emily Post
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit... — Stella Gibbons
Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to… — Judith McNaught
The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the… — Kurt Vonnegut
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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