1.
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
2.
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
Dorothy Parker
3.
Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
Sandra Day O'Connor
4.
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.
Emily Post
6.
There is a certain physiognomy in manners.
Joseph Cook
7.
And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.
Dylan Thomas
8.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
Amy Vanderbilt
9.
Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
Maurice Baring
10.
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
Robert MacNeil
11.
The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.
Sai Baba
12.
Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners
Ibn Rajab
13.
Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.
Emily Post
15.
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. Lucas
16.
Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.
A. A. Milne
17.
When words & manners leave you no space for yourself
make
very personal
very clear
& your obstructions will join you or disappear.
Ntozake Shange
19.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Horace Mann
20.
Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
Diana Vreeland
22.
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
Moshe Katsav
23.
He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.
Texas Guinan
24.
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
Lillian Gish
25.
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
27.
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
John Quincy Adams
28.
We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners
Hannibal
29.
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.
Stella Gibbons
30.
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
Freya Stark
31.
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
Ann Landers
32.
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
Baron de Montesquieu
33.
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.
Emily Post
34.
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
Og Mandino
35.
Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.
Tina Brown
36.
Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?
Dick Gregory
37.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
39.
Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
40.
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
Richard Whately
41.
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.
Neil Gaiman
42.
Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski
43.
Manners. Manners will get you through anything.
Ronan Farrow
45.
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Evelyn Waugh
46.
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Alfred P. Sloan
47.
I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.
Robert Treat Paine