Quotes about Manners

“Manners make the person.”

“Manners are love in a cool climate.”

“Politeness is the flower of humanity.”

“What once were vices are manners now.”

“Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.”

“The greater person is one of courtesy.”

“He is the very pineapple of politeness!”

“Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.”

“The basis of good manners is self-reliance.”

“Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.”

“Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.”

“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”

“Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.”

“The only true source of politeness is consideration.”

“If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.”

“A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.”

“Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.”

“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.”

“Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.”

“We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.”

“It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.”

“Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.”

“Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.”

“Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.”

“Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.”

“It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.”

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

“Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.”

“The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.”

“Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.”