Character Quote by Sydney Smith

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

— Sydney Smith

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 the happy ways of doing things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create…

— Peter Drucker

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

— Quentin Crisp

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot,…

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Molly Ivins

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

— Dorian Cox

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

— 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

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

— Lynne Truss