Elements Quote by Steven Petrow

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

— Bill Kelly

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

— Emily Post

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

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“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

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

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

— Alice Duer Miller

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

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

“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 the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others.

— Alice Miller

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