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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

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.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.