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
Charles Simmons 
Honore De Balzac 
Walt Whitman 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All Manners Quotes
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller 
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Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Colley Cibber
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
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You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.
John Burns
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Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Evelyn Waugh
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Randall Jarrell
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield
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Lord ChesterfieldJonathan SwiftJames Russell LowellAnthony TrollopeHelen RowlandLoretta YoungDavid OgilvyR. Buckminster FullerMignon McLaughlinHenry JamesJoseph JoubertHenry FieldingMargaret MeadAlexis de TocquevilleQuentin Crisp
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