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Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
Proverb
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Abel Stevens
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
Benzel Sternan
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image
Johann von Goethe
What once were vices are manners now.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
Dorothy Parker
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. Lucas
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
Stephen Bayley, Taste, pt. 1, Ta
He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence
Samuel Johnson
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
Flannery O'Connor
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
John Cassis
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
Source Unknown
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer
No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.
Korner
We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile.
R. W. Riis
