Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
Amy Vanderbilt
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
Ann Landers
Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
Apollonius of Tyana
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Bennett Cerf
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.
Bill Nighy
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Bryant H. McGill
Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
Candice Swanepoel
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Colley Cibber
Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'
Cy Twombly
Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.
David Rakoff
It's not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It's an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a part of good manners.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire
It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.
Geoff Dyer
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
Isaac Hanson
It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're thoughtful of other people and that they learn the consequences of their actions.
It doesn't change the way I am, but I do totally understand how you're looked at as a footballer, especially by children. I don't claim I can shape their lives, but there's no harm in having good manners and being seen to play the game properly.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.
Good manners don't cost nothing.
I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.
As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.
Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.
For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.
Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
One of the few things I like about Bill Clinton is that he has very good manners. If his momma were still alive, I would congratulate her.
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
The cliche of call-centre work is that it's mainly older people who will stay on the line to talk to you. Whether through loneliness or good manners, they tend to allow you to finish your sentences, hear you out.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
