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You lose your manners when you are poor.

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

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.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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.

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

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