Doc Quote by Mary Doria Russell

“ “Good manners are free, but forgetting them often costs you dearly.” -Traditional Southern Wisdom”

— Deborah Ford

“but we know in the South that the real purpose of manners is to make life easier for everyone, easier both to keep to…

— Walker Percy

“Courtesy is the foundation of all good manners.”

— William Riley Brooksher

“Courtesy, is a constant repitition of reflecting established virtues.”

— Wayne Chirisa

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

— Emily Post

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy…

— Yukteswar Giri

“It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals,”

— Oscar Wilde

“Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

— Sydney Smith

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

— Sydney Smith

“Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them. The essence…

— Henry Alford

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

— Theodore Roosevelt