Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. – Emily Post
Politeness is like an air-cushion—there may be nothing in it, but it wonderfully eases the joltings along the rough road of life. – Attributed to H.W. Beecher
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. – Arthur Schopenhauer
[W]hat is good behavior? A lying varnish spread upon a bit of wood to make it pass for a cane. – Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. – Bill Kelly
The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones. – Gabirol (Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol), The Choice of Pearls
Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. – Maurice Baring
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. – Lord Halifax
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. – E.V. Lucas
Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home. – J.S. Farynski
People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. – French Proverb
Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. – John Wanamaker
What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. – Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living: Diaries
Meat makes, and clothes shapes, but manners makes a man. – Scottish Proverb
Better good manners than good looks. – Proverb
Good manners and plenty of money will make my son a gentlemen. – Proverb
Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony. – Proverb
