High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.
The joy of my heart is to study men, their manners, and their ways, and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.
In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners.
Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.