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In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

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.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

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

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.

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 are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

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