You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
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.
Manners is the key thing. Say for instance when you're growing up you're walking down the street you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad 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.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history but Southern identity now has more to do with food accents manners music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.
Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food the dress the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.
On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue where pure and simple manners prevailed the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
Equality is the public recognition effectively expressed in institutions and manners of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
No advance in wealth no softening of manners no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
At any rate girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world the study of the fine arts and of the manners and dispositions of people.