Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
Alexander McCall Smith
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Sydney Smith
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Paul Theroux
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Evelyn Waugh
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Beware of a man with manners.
Eudora Welty
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
William Wilberforce
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
Rosalind Wiseman