Top Manners Quotes
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
Zebulon Pike
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
Moshe Katsav
J. Irwin Miller 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
Quentin Crisp 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Henry James 
Henry Ward Beecher All Manners Quotes
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.
Judith Martin 
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Edmund Burke
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Louisa May Alcott
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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
Stephen Bayley
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It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
David Ogilvy
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Paul Theroux
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Popular Manners Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonJohann Wolfgang von GoetheBenjamin FranklinBenjamin DisraeliGilbert K. ChestertonHenry Ward BeecherAlexander PopeJohn RuskinHonore De BalzacGeorge OrwellEdmund BurkeHenry Wadsworth LongfellowBryant H. McGillSimone WeilWalt Whitman
Lord ChesterfieldJonathan SwiftJames Russell LowellAnthony TrollopeHelen RowlandLoretta YoungDavid OgilvyR. Buckminster FullerMignon McLaughlinHenry JamesJoseph JoubertHenry FieldingMargaret MeadAlexis de TocquevilleQuentin Crisp
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