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Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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 the basic building blocks of civil society.

It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

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

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

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