Combination Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

— Bill Kelly

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Sydney Smith

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

— Emily Post

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

— Quentin Crisp

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…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to…

— Catharine Beecher

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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.

— Emily Post

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value…

— Freya Stark