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

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices

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

Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.
Gabirol

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.
P.J. O\'Rourke

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.
Fredrika Bremer

Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.
Jason Chamberlain

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

Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love --now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows.

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