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
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
Margaret Mead 
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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Bennett Cerf
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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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The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Mercy Otis Warren
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Sydney Smith
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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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Robert Rainy
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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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