Commit Quote by Stella Gibbons

“Politeness must be cultivated, for the promptings of nature are eminently selfish, and courtesy and good-breeding are only attainable by effort and discipline. But…

— Arthur Martine

“Peck prided herself on being well-mannered, often to the point of rudeness.”

— Danielle Ganek

“Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what everyone else…

— Sarah-Kate Lynch

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic?…

— Rainbow Rowell

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

— Mason Cooley

“It wouldn't be the first time she had seen herself obliged to accept with smothered irony other people's interpretation of her conduct. She often…

— Henry James

Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline…

— Anonymous

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