Quotes About Manners

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.  ~ Mignon McLaughlin


Good manners are like traffic rules for society.  ~ Michael Levine


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


You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.  ~ Rita Mae Brown


Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.  ~ Bill Kelly


Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.  ~ Eric Hoffer


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


Politeness is fictitious benevolence.  ~ Samuel Johnson


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


There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.  ~ E.V. Lucas


Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.  ~ Arthur Schopenhauer


Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.  ~ John Wanamaker