The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. Wendell L. Willkie
Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can’t be truly rude until you understand good manners. Rita Mae Brown
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. Douglas Jerrold
The great secret is not having bad manners or good manners or having any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls; in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third class carriages and one soul is as good as another. George Bernard Shaw
You lose your manners when you are poor. Lillian Hellman
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. Fred Astaire
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man. Richard Whately
A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. Richard Whately
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. Paul Theroux
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. Evelyn Waugh