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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. (Quote by - Humphrey Bogart)

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. (Quote by - Sarah Orne Jewett)

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

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. (Quote by - E V Lucas)

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. (Quote by - W Somerset Maugham)

Civility costs nothing and buys everything. (Quote by - Mary Wortley Montague)

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. (Quote by - Abel Stevens)

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. (Quote by - Fred Astaire)

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)

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. (Quote by - Emily Post)

The society of women is the element of good manners. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. (Quote by - Will Cuppy)

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. (Quote by - Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.)

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. (Quote by - John Milton)

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. (Quote by - Mary Wilson Little)

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. (Quote by - Margaret Walker)

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. (Quote by - Cicero)

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. (Quote by - Horace Mann)

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. (Quote by - Voltaire)

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

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