Character Quote by Samuel Adams

“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

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

— Honore de Balzac

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

— Mason Cooley

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a…

— Lord Chesterfield

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

— Judith Martin

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

— Mason Cooley

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

— Emily Post

Manners are stronger than laws

— Thomas Carlyle