Manners Quotes

A few motivational quotes about manners.

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

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Algernon Sidney

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.
Unknown

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
Bennett Cerf

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E.V. Lucas

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Alfred P. Sloan

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Bryant H. McGill

Beware of a man with manners.
Eudora Welty

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
Anthony Trollope

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honore de Balzac

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Horace Mann

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Benjamin Disraeli

You can get through life with bad manners, but it’s easier with good manners.
Lillian Gish

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

You lose your manners when you are poor.
Lillian Hellman

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
Sir John Vanbrugh

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Cesare Pavese