Attention Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners have been somewhatcynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Quentin Crisp

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

— Sydney Smith

Society is smoothed to that excess, that manners hardly differ more than dress

— Lord Byron

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

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

— Sydney Smith

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

— Lynne Truss

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

The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to…

— Judith Martin

The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past…

— Henry David Thoreau

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

— Molly Ivins

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