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Manners Quotes

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

Dylan Thomas, Fritz Eichenberg (1983). “Rebecca's Daughters”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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

Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

Maurice Baring (2014). “The Coat Without Seam”, p.58, House of Stratus

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.8.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.80

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.97, Harvard University Press

The greater man the greater courtesy.

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Last Tournament' (1859) l. 628

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

"Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.