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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.
I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.
The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.
Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.
Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
I like good manners, old-fashioned courting, I like being wooed.
I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.
Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.
He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners.
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!
Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.
Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.
Honor has to say "please" and "thank you." Manners are really important.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.
To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.