Quotes about Manners

"I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like."
-Margaret Mead

"Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them."
-Amy Vanderbilt

"I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous."
-Dusty Springfield

"Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man."
-Richard Whately

"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."
-Wendell L. Willkie

"We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners."
-Ben Hecht

"The society of women is the element of good manners."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners."
-George Bernard Shaw

"You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners."
-Rita Mae Brown

"Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court."
-William Shakespeare

"What once were vices are manners now."
-Seneca

"It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives."
-Edmund Burke

"Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted."
-Algernon Sidney

"Manners maketh man."
-William of Wykeham

"The idea of having pride, the idea of manners, I think is very, very important. There's just too little of it in the world and I think there are certain dignities in life to which we should all aspire."
-Bill Bixby

"Manners, -- The final and perfect flower of noble character."
-William Forrest Winter

"Everywhere I know of, people complain about the decline in manners."
-Deborah Durham

"Parents are realizing that manners could become extinct, and they have to get on the ball and do something about it, ... Manners are not in the genes; they are not inherited. They must be taught and learned."
-David Boyd

"You don't have to have money and privilege to have good manners."
-Maribeth Evans

"Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass."
-Sir John Vanbrugh

"Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened."
-Stanley Walker

"Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals."
-Art Spander

"Manners are essential for interpersonal communication, ... Without rules, everyone gets hurt."
-Lulu

"Manners are how you show how you're going to relate to someone else."
-Deborah Durham

"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
-Bennett Cerf

"To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners."
-Lawrence Sterne

"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

"After all, eating is natural, but we don't all have good table manners."
-Kate Fox