Manners are the ornament of action. – Smiles.
Manners are the lesser morals of life. – Aristotle.
Little minds are vexed with trifles. – La Rochefoucauld.
It is always easy to say a rude thing, but never wise. – Stacy.
Marriage is the true road to Paradise. – De La Ferrière.
Guard the manners if you would protect the morals. – Davidson.
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. – Robert G. Ingersoll.
Good temper is the essence of good manners. – Anonymous.
Politeness is the expression or imitation of social virtues. – Duclos.
Some people get into the bad habit of being unhappy. – George Eliot.
He that has no character is not a man: he is only a thing. – Chamfort.
Contempt should be the best concealed of our sentiments. – Anonymous.
Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them. – Mme. de Staël.
Good manners are the shadows of virtues, if not virtues themselves. – Anonymous.
Consideration for woman is the measure of a nation’s progress in social life. – Grégoire.
In all professions and occupations, good manners are necessary to success. – Mrs. Ward.
Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked. – Voltaire.
Manners are the hypocrisies of nations; the hypocrisies are more or less perfected. – Balzac.
An earthly father who cannot govern by affection is not fit to be a father. – Robert G. Ingersoll.
It is generally allowed that the forming and the perfecting of the character is difficult. – Anonymous.
Respect your wife. Heap earth around that flower, but never drop any in the chalice. – A. de Musset.
Good manners is the art of making easy the persons with whom we are brought into contact. – Anonymous.
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as one would choose for a friend, were she a man. – Joubert.
It is a great misfortune not to have enough wit to speak well, or not enough judgment to keep silent. – La Bruyère.
Experience and observation in society are the chief means by which one acquires the polish that society demands. – Anonymous.
Let what you say be to the purpose, and let it be so said that if we forget the speech we may recollect the manner of it. – Anonymous.
The art of conversation consists less in showing one’s own wit than in giving opportunity for the display of the wit of others. – La Bruyère.
There is no surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel. – Hazlitt.
Were we as eloquent as angels, we should please some men, some women, and some children, much more by listening than by talking. – Lacon.
If you speak the sense of an angel in bad words, and with a disagreeable utterance, nobody will hear you twice who can help it. – Chesterfield.
