Cleanse not your teeth with the tablecloth, napkin, fork or knife.

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

Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Suit your manner to the man.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good 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.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

Society is smoothed to that excess, That manners hardly differ more than dress.

Manners maketh man. Yes, but they make woman still more.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

They asked Lucman, the Fabulist, From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.

The single essential ingredient of good manners is a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.