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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.