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Manners Quotes by Emily Post
- Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.
- Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.
- To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business.
- 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.
- Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.
More Manners Quotes
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. — Honore de Balzac
- If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. — Benjamin Banneker
- Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody… — Usain Bolt
- That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of… — Danny Boyle
- Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. — Rita Mae Brown
- The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. — Edmund Burke