Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained
Niccolo Machiavelli
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man
Richard Whately
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Horace Mann
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.
Jonathan Swift
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
Theodore Roosevelt
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse, but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
Samuel Butler
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
Bryant McGill
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Bryant McGill
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense, that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach him dignity morals manners and human comfort, she can delicatly and dangerously bedizen the rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell.
Robert Seymour Bridges
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
Edward Bond