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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Rene Descartes
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
St. Basil
The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.
Kahlil Gibran
Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
W. H. Auden
I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.
Joy Baluch
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Plato
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Emma Thompson
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Evelyn Waugh, "The Observer", Ap
Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
P. J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners,
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
Proverb
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
Ingmar Bergman
Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
Francis Beaumont
If you perceive yourself in a negative manner then success is next to impossible.
Steve Maraboli
Civility costs nothing.
